Fuller's good navy record won him a short-term appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis,Maryland.

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Similarly, in naval battles Themistocles at Salamis comes up with a clever device.

在萨拉弥斯海战中,地米斯托克利也是靠着类似的招数才扭转乾坤

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It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.

建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。

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They downed a Dutch fleet in 1741, a rare example of an Asian state inflicting a naval defeat on a European power.

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After a second towing to deep water, it took a naval shelling and finally a torpedo to send the hulk to the bottom.

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