Meanings of great armament in English

Nevertheless, a great armament was assembled in the Dutch harbours.

Do you remember the fine account of the great armament setting off from the Piræus for Sicily-B.

King Sigurd accordingly went with great armament east to Viken, and there he met his brother King Inge.

The great armament which the Athenians despatched to Sicily seemed, in numbers alone, capable of triumphing over all resistance.

His intentions had not become known, and the English Mediterranean fleet was watching the course of this great armament.

When Helen abandoned Menelaus and went to Troy with Paris, Agamemnon led a great armament to recover the adulteress.

Tostig joined him off the Orkney Isles, and this great armament soon came in sight of the shores of England.

You Rangers are the best of messengers; and you have seen this great armament, and can speak with authority concerning it.

The king, on his side, had no sooner heard from Tissaphernes of Cyrus's great armament, than he began to make counter-preparations.

So Darius sent a great armament by sea against Eretria and Athens, led by Datis and Artaphernes, which sailed first against Eretria.

The great armament instead of thrusting at Syracuse wasted its time and efficiency on side-issues, mainly owing to the cold leadership of Nicias.

To oppose this great armament, the Greek admiral Miaulis had only seventy sail, manned by five thousand sailors and carrying eight hundred guns.

All that winter rumors of great armaments against Sweden filled the land.

A spirit of generous consideration is a more certain defense than great armaments.

The inactivity of the British arms appears the more inexcusable, when we consider the great armaments which had been prepared.

(13) After this the great armaments of both belligerents had ceased to exist.