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8 sentences with 'naval'

Example sentences and phrases with the word naval and other words derived from it.


• « The Vikings quickly became the great naval power in Europe at the time. »
• « The Romans eventually learned to conduct effective naval warfare and stranded the Carthaginian army in Sicily. »
• « Here, simple logistics were the issue: the Greek naval victory made supplying the entire Persian army impracticable. »
• « In any case, the issue raised very naval waves in several navies around the world: a new sonar, could it be mounted on a self-guided torpedo, had the end of the road arrived for those snipers of the sea, the submarines? No answers. »
• « The following year, in 479 BC, a decisive battle was fought in central Greece by a Greek coalition led by the Spartans, followed by a Greek naval battle led by the Athenians. The latter led an invasion of Ionia that defeated the Persian army. »
• « The two armies camped and observed each other for a few days, and then the Persians sent some 10,000 of their troops in naval transports to attack Athens directly; this caused the leading Athenian general (named Miltiades) to gamble on attacking the remaining Persians, rather than rushing to Athens to defend it. »
• « In addition to the system of themas (administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire), the Byzantine Empire added heavy cavalry to its roster and famously used a substance called Greek Fire in naval warfare; there are very few details, but it appears to have been a petroleum-based incendiary substance used to attack enemy ships. »
• « During the Classical Age, the Carthaginians, Phoenician naval rivals of the Greeks, maintained a strong naval garrison in the Strait of Gibraltar (the narrow gap between North Africa and southern Spain, between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean), which prevented Greek sailors from reaching the Atlantic and thus limited their direct knowledge of the outside world. »

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