gunboat sentence examples

• The government even sent a gunboat to rousay to ensure that things didn't spill over into an all-out revolt.
• The icelandic gunboat is risking getting a stem packed with ice in a very tender spot from the trawler steaming at high speed.
• Gunboat diplomacy ' are rampant.
• On moonless nights motor gunboats slipped across the channel to pickup points on the breton coast.
• The jobs in hand included six gunboats and the contract for westminster bridge in london, which was built in 1862.
• On august 11th laupepa was returned by german gunboat from the marshalls, landed at apia and turned adrift to his own devices.
• Gunboat christianity was part of the rhetoric of empire.
• Bramble the sixth bramble was a 6-gun screw gunboat, launched at belfast in 1886.
• In 1913 a trial was conducted using a false bow, representing a torpedo gunboat, fitted to an old vessel called mastiff.
• Like the opium forced upon a reluctant china by british gunboats, once you've started using gm, you're stuck with it.
• Gunboat fleet, flying " ring of stars " flags, is enforcing its fisheries policies.
• The third ant was an ant class gunboat, launched 1873 and scrapped 1926.
• In the 19th century britain and america used gunboats to force open china and japan to trade on their terms.
• A view showing the 1898 class twin-screw gunboat ' sultan ' moored at wad hamid.
• And what about those extraordinary operations of armored trains and river gunboats far from the sea during the russian revolution?
• During the china war in 1860 he commanded the gunboat confucius employed in the rivers.
• One of our small gunboats had gone up the calabar river, and while there the surgeon died of coast fever.

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