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Caesar was overcome by these entreaties, and advanced in a peaceable temper to Tarentum, where those that were present beheld a most stately spectacle; a vast army drawn up by the shore, and as great a fleet in the harbor, all without the occurrence of any act of hostility; nothing but the salutations of friends, and other expressions of joy and kindness, passing from one armament to the other.
The armament of this privateer consisted of one long twenty-four-pounder and twelve heavy carronades. After the deliberation I fixed upon the Paul Jones as the more desirable vessel.
In reply to the demand that the Friendship should be returned, the insolent Rajah told them to take her if they could. The three ships moved as close to shore as was safe and opened fire with such guns as they had. All merchant vessels carried some kind of armament against pirates in that part of the world.
At the earliest dawn the wide armament was astir the creaking of cordage the tramp of men loud orders and louder oaths the slow rolling of baggage-wains and the clank of the armourers, announced the removal of the camp, and the approaching departure of the Grand Company. Ere Adrian was yet attired, Montreal entered his tent.
It was your misfortune, not your fault, that we were too strong for you, and if Sir Timothy Tompion oh yes," in answer to my look of surprise, "I know Sir Timothy quite well, and he knows me, or thinks he does! if Sir Timothy had only known that he was sending you out to fight the Barracouta, he would have given you, if not a bigger ship, at least twice as heavy an armament, and twice as strong a crew.
Their ships lay in the river beyond; a large portion of the armament was with the ships.
So dire was the dread then inspired by the Turks that this vast armament dared not move till it was known that Ochiali had left the neighbourhood of Italy, and even then the rivalries of the different admirals tended rather to war between the contingents than an attack upon the enemy's fleet.
In addition to this latter armament, it is very necessary to name a fleet of a hundred war-balloons of the type mentioned in an earlier chapter, fifty of which belonged to Russia and fifty to France.
He had performed the eminent service of rescuing Naupactus from a powerful hostile armament in the seventh year of the war; he had then, at the request of the Acarnanian republics, taken on himself the office of commander- in-chief of all their forces, and at their head he had gained some important advantages over the enemies of Athens in Western Greece.
The greatest armament of the latter days of the Roman republic was that of Augustus, who transported eighty thousand men and twelve thousand horses into Greece to oppose Antony; for, besides the numerous transports required for such an army, there were two hundred and sixty vessels of war to protect them.
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