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    1. Then he told me the story of a British naval officer who traveled to India during the British occupation and became enamored with Sikhism, and how the guru, whom this officer was learning from, advised the man when he wanted to convert to Sikhism


    2. And then something about the naval yard in Perlow,


    3. wearing the uniform of the naval conscription


    4. They finished the temple, chatting about ships and naval battles all the while


    5. The midriff looked cuter; because she had her naval pierced with a filigree black rose hanging from a small white gold chain


    6. Not on a fishing boat, you understand, but in his naval fleet


    7. National animosity, at that particular time, aimed at the very same object which the most deliberate wisdom would have recommended, the diminution of the naval power of Holland, the only naval power which could endanger the security of England


    8. Towards the end of the fifteenth, and during the greater part of the sixteenth century, Spain and Portugal were the two great naval powers upon the ocean ; for though the commerce of Venice extended to every part of Europe, its fleet had scarce ever sailed beyond the Mediterranean


    9. The Spaniards, in virtue of the first discovery, claimed all America as their own; and though they could not hinder so great a naval power as that of Portugal from settling in Brazil, such was at that time the terror of their name, that the greater part of the other nations of Europe were afraid to establish themselves in any other part of that great continent


    10. But the declension of the naval power of this latter nation, in consequence of the defeat or miscarriage of what they called their invincible armada, which happened towards the end of the sixteenth century, put it out of their power to obstruct any longer the settlements of the other European nations

    11. To increase the shipping and naval power of Great Britain by the extension of the fisheries of our colonies, is an object which the legizslature seems to have had almost constantly in view


    12. Of this kind are all naval stores, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, pig and bar iron, copper ore, hides and skins, pot and pearl ashes


    13. In order to counteract this notable piece of mercantile policy, and to render herself as much as possible independent, not only of Sweden, but of all the other northern powers, Great Britain gave a bounty upon the importation of naval stores from America; and the effect of this bounty was to raise the price of timber in America much more than the confinement to the home market could lower it; and as both regulations were enacted at the same time, their joint effect was rather to encourage than to discourage the clearing of land in America


    14. In the first way, she gives an advantage in the home market to the sugar, tobacco, and iron of her own colonies; and, in the second, to their raw silk, to their hemp and flax, to their indigo, to their naval stores, and to their building timber


    15. But this great naval power could not, in either of those wars, be owing to the act of navigation


    16. The trade of the colonies, of which England, even for some time after the act of navigation, enjoyed but a part (for the act of navigation was not very strictly executed till several years after it was enacted), could not at that time be the cause of the great trade of England, nor of the great naval power which was supported by that trade


    17. The trade which at that time supported that great naval power was the trade of Europe, and of the countries which lie round the Mediterranean sea


    18. But the share which Great Britain at present enjoys of that trade could not support any such great naval power


    19. The expense of the ordinary peace establishment of the colonies amounted, before the commencement of the present disturbances to the pay of twenty regiments of foot ; to the expense of the artillery, stores, and extraordinary provisions, with which it was necessary to supply them ; and to the expense of a very considerable naval force, which was constantly kept up, in order to guard from the smuggling vessels of other nations, the immense coast of North America, and that of our West Indian islands


    20. The first bounties of this kind were those granted about the beginning of the present century, upon the importation of naval stores from America

    21. And so, if we had succeeded in drawing the attention of the crew of that British naval ship we, very likely, would have been taken prisoner and all of our possessions, as likely, would have been seized


    22. It was an American naval vessel and it appeared to be heading in our direction


    23. The ship was a naval frigate, the captain told us, out pirate hunting, and it was due in port in Philadelphia


    24. But worse than that, the Government have despatched a naval fleet to investigate the attack and enforce the evacuation


    25. ” As the CSM finished speaking the first shells of the naval bombardment whistled overhead sounding like a train going by


    26. In fact if you looked up into the sky you could actually see the shells from the big naval guns flying in a curved arc towards the Turkish positions as I looked at my watch I could see that it was exactly 8am


    27. “There will be a naval bombardment of the Turkish positions and then we and the Lancashire Fusiliers who landed with us who have now officially been amalgamated into the 88th Brigade will attack our targets in fact let me tell you the whole of the 29th Division will be in the attack


    28. It was now about 10:30am and I was just about to say something myself when the naval bombardment started up and although it was noisy it didn’t last long


    29. The next morning after an even shorter naval bombardment that yesterday if that was possible I timed it at just fifteen minutes we set off to attack the Turkish lines once more at 10am


    30. The naval bombardment went ahead at 10:15am and was a more intense and heavy one than the previous two at 10:45am the whistles shrilled and we set off across the ground that was now so familiar to us

    31. “The rest of the Brigade was trying to push up towards us but they were being slaughtered were they stood so naval artillery was called in to silence the machine guns but this did no good because the shells could not find them let alone smash them


    32. This was not how she had envisaged this naval operation coming to an end


    33. On our train there were troops from nearly all the services there were sailors in their bellbottom trousers and Naval Officers full of gold braid then their were RFC pilots with fancy wings on their uniform chests and brightly coloured medal ribbons below them


    34. Naval Academy, which at that time was called the United States


    35. officially renamed the United States Naval Academy on July 1,


    36. He reported to the Pennsylvania in December 1841 and began his naval career


    37. Following graduation, Waddell was first assigned to the Naval


    38. Duty at the Naval Observatory was of


    39. From the Naval Observatory, Waddell was ordered back to


    40. write much about this assignment but writes that from the Naval

    41. his work at the Naval Academy


    42. At this point, Waddell felt he had now graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and he was proud of what he had


    43. midshipmen that would come later to the Naval Academy would


    44. ordered from his assignment at the Naval Academy to report to


    45. The Saginaw remained in Hong Kong for a few months in late 1860, following the naval operations with the English and


    46. Most of the Southern naval officers had a


    47. Consequently, most naval men chose to remain with


    48. naval actions and ended the career of the South’s most


    49. at the local naval base


    50. The strictest regards for the rights of neutrals cannot be too sedulously observed; nor should an opportunity be lost in cultivating friendly relations with their naval and merchant services, and of placing the true character of the contest in which we are engaged in its proper light














































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    Synonyms for "naval"

    naval nautical seafaring maritime marine navigational aquatic

    "naval" definitions

    connected with or belonging to or used in a navy