Admiralties

At King William Island, in the Admiralties, Kwaque had made, in the parlance of the South

CHAPTER III 2010

The BPF had been established in November 1944 with its main base at Sydney, Australia, and the advanced base at Manus in the Admiralties “Scapa Flow with bloody palm trees”.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

The BPF had been established in November 1944 with its main base at Sydney, Australia, and the advanced base at Manus in the Admiralties “Scapa Flow with bloody palm trees”.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

The Bismarcks, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have been most affected by extensive logging of lowland and hill forests and subsequent land clearing for copra and oil palm plantations, while the Admiralties have been most affected by agricultural expansion.

Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands 2008

The Admiralties, forewarned perhaps by their engineers, showed a livelier discretion and for the most part hid away their costly fleets from the disasters of combat in strongly defended harbours, and allowed them to emerge only on one or two wild occasions for battle so inconclusive that they were prolonged as controversies for years afterwards and remain undecided to this day.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

An officer who was showing General Douglas MacArthur around after the Marines landed on Los Negros in the Admiralties tried to steer him away from a patch of jungle near the beachhead.

ONE SHOT-ONE KILL CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS 1990

No thanks, I may say, to our Admiralty who are as stingy as Admiralties the world over.

Partisans MacLean, Alistair 1982

Did Davies think that Admiralties had time to waste on smoothing the road for such quixotic little craft as his, in all its inquisitive ramblings?

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

(Laughter) That was imitated by all the law Lords, and in a case where there was a Court of seven members over a very serious matter, four of them being of different nationalities, Admiral Bulley, as in duty bound, reported this thing to his Admiralty, and the Admiralty did the usual thing that Admiralties do on such occasions.

The Influence of Modern Weapons Upon Future Warfare 1922

At King William Island, in the Admiralties, Kwaque had made, in the parlance of the South

Chapter 3 1917