Until recently, no naval force in the Pacific or Indian Ocean could challenge the US Navy.

直到最近，美国海军在太平洋或印度洋仍无对手。

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The commander of the naval force, Captain [Gustavus] Fox, had hoped to move the soldiers to Sumter in small boats. But the sea was so rough that the small boats could not be used.

美国海军的司令官古斯塔夫·福克斯上校原希望利用小船将士兵运送到萨姆特堡，但这里的海面非常凶涌，这样的小船根本无法使用。

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For the past year the European Union has deployed its first-ever joint naval force, named Operation Atalanta, to protect ships passing in and out of the Red Sea on their way from or to the Suez canal.

在过去的一年里，欧盟组建了第一支联合海军舰队——亚特兰大行动，保护由经苏伊士运河进出红海的船只。

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The commander of the naval force, Captain Fox, had hoped to move the soldiers to Sumter in small boats.

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While he waited for an answer, the Spanish naval force tried to break out of Santiago Harbor.

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If war broke out,it said, he was to attack the Spanish naval force in the Philippines.

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Britain opposed French attempts to get the EU to lead a naval force to enforce the arms embargo.

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France, Germany and other European governments could join a naval force, perhaps under NATO's aegis, to patrol the sea off Gaza.

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Achim Winkler, a spokesman for the European Union naval force, says hundreds of ships would be needed to secure the area.

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