squadron

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Fortunately the squadron was already equipped for sea; and, instead of repairing to the African frontier to chastise the daring pirates, it is on its way to the Tuscan coast, where, if need be, it will land twenty thousand soldiers to liberate my relations and the young Count of Riverola.

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  1. noun A naval unit consisting of two or more divisions of a fleet.
  2. noun An armored cavalry unit subordinate to a regiment and consisting of two or more troops.
  3. noun A cavalry or armored unit of a European army, corresponding to a company.
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  • Quickly my squadron is airborne and heading S.E. The lake district comes into view. —  THE BANTAM WAR BOOK SERIES
  • Before they could eat lunch the squadron was again engaged with German formations between London and Horn-church. —  The Narrow Margin
  • To this squadron was assigned the duty of attacking the fort and batteries south of the town, a service previously intended for the Minden and Hebrus , which were now to take a position among their consorts in front of the Mole. —  The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
  • "Well, that's good news, because the men in the squadron are asking when they're getting their skipper back," Johnson said. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • Exmouth then returned to Gibraltar, where his squadron was assembled, and at once resumed negotiations with the Dey with the intention of procuring his adhesion to the all-important undertaking to abolish Christian slavery. —  Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
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  1. Italian squadrone, augmentative of squadra, squad; see squad.

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  1. = Dutch escadron = Danish eskadron, from Old French esquadron, French escadron = Spanish escuadron = Pg, esquadrão (= German schwad-rone = Swedish sqvadron), from It, squadrone, a squadron, ang. of squadra, a squad, a square: see squad, square.
 

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