embarkations

Washington planned the marches and embarkations carefully, asking Congress and the states to provide the boats and wagons as well as the provisions that the armies would need on the way; appealing to de Grasse for a naval escort and transports for the voyage down Chesapeake Bay; and ordering Lafayette to prepare the horses and wagons to shift the armies from Williamsburg to Yorktown.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Washington planned the marches and embarkations carefully, asking Congress and the states to provide the boats and wagons as well as the provisions that the armies would need on the way; appealing to de Grasse for a naval escort and transports for the voyage down Chesapeake Bay; and ordering Lafayette to prepare the horses and wagons to shift the armies from Williamsburg to Yorktown.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

“Barra Catrina,” and was used in the embarkations of slaves.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Owing to his tact and ability, the difficult and ofttimes very heavy work of embarkations and disembarkations has passed smoothly and well.

With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service

And indeed this persuasion was but too well founded; for we afterwards learned that our barge, when sent on the discovery of the port of Acapulco, had been seen from the shore, and that this circumstance (no embarkations but canoes ever frequenting that coast) was to them a sufficient proof of the neighbourhood of our squadron, on which they stopped the galleon till the succeeding year.

Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter

They also indicated that these embarkations were made in spite of their presence and remonstrance and for this reason asked

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

In the early days of the war I was present at many embarkations at Liverpool and Southampton, and they left an impression on my mind which will not easily be effaced.

The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907

Mooch's perpetual embarkations for one Utopia or another were a standing joke in

Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905

Perhaps that will happen again, although they sowed their wild oats long ago: in any case their embarkations are never for long: very soon they return to their age-old companion: the earth.

Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905

He took, apparently, great interest in the embarkations, and, when evening came on, he sent repeatedly down to the sea-side to inquire about the state of the wind and the progress of the operations.

History of Julius Caesar Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 1904