Gunboat in a sentence

CCG said it drove away the Navy gunboat in the shoal located in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) on Tuesday, according to Chinese mouthpiece Global Times.

She then channeled those experiences as a scout, spy and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, helping guide 150 Black soldiers on a gunboat raid in South Carolina.

The hidden hands of power engaged in gunboat diplomacy: the 25th was dangling above Joe's head.

There was also the American gunboat steamer that served in the Union Navy in the Civil War.

Before the post-midnight deal, Cyprus had demanded sanctions on Turkey over what it calls Ankara's "gunboat diplomacy" and violations of the island nation's maritime shelf.

And the people working in Bermuda’s international business community – ‘Bermuda Inc’ – have experienced most of these emotions since the gunboat of appeared on our horizon, with consequential legislation passing through Parliament just before Christmas.

After four months of fighting, Escurra signed the Pact of Pilcomayo aboard an Argentine gunboat on December 12, 1904, and handed power to the Liberals.

Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks one gunboat, while the other two leave the battle.

By 1972 the navy had one small patrol gunboat and two small patrol craft that performed port control and customs duties.

Cited in Michio Kaku & David Axelrod, To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon Secret War Plans, Boston: South End Press, 1987, p 64. Michio Kaku and David Axelrod comment on the suggestion: “ Gunboat diplomacy would be replaced by Atomic diplomacy.

Early torpedo gunboat designs lacked the range and speed to keep up with the fleet they were supposed to protect.

German gunboat diplomacy in China in the age of imperialism), Bochum 2004.

In a well calculated recommendation letter to Parliament, creating a precedent now infamously known as 'Gunboat Diplomacy', Jardine states: No formal Purchase, -- no tedious negotiations,.

In his memoirs, Nie Rongzhen suggested that the gunboat had moved in protest of Zhou Enlai's (brief) arrest.

It blew up as a result of heated cannon shot from a gunboat hitting the powder magazine, killing all its inhabitants.

John Rabe boarded the U.S. gunboat USS on December 9 and sent two telegrams, one to Chiang Kai-shek by way of the American ambassador in Hankow, and one to the Japanese military authority in Shanghai.

Only the timely arrival of the United States gunboat Wasp saved the diplomat from arrest.

President Lyndon Johnson had ordered the invasion to stem what he claimed to be a "Communist threat", however the mission appeared ambiguous and was roundly condemned throughout the hemisphere as a return to gunboat diplomacy.

Receiving no response to their objections, the British gunboat Hugh Rose arrived in Qatar on 19 July 1871.

The British expedition commander, prompted by the loss of the gunboat, decided to abandon Jan Mayen until the following spring and radioed for a rescue ship.