naval battle

Noun
  1. A pitched battle between naval fleets (synset 100960588)
    is a type of: battle, conflict, engagement, fight - a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
    specific instances:
    • actium - the naval battle in which Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian's fleet under Agrippa in 31 BC
    • aegadean isles, aegates isles - islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC
    • aegospotami, aegospotamos - a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)
    • battle of the bismarck sea, bismarck sea - a naval battle in World War II; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943
    • battle of the coral sea, coral sea - a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers
    • hampton roads - a naval battle of the American Civil War (1862); the indecisive battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac
    • battle of jutland, jutland - an indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916); fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark
    • battle of lepanto, lepanto - Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope
    • manila bay - a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet
    • battle of midway, midway - naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
    • battle of navarino, navarino - a decisive naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827); the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by an allied fleet of British and French and Russian warships
    • cape passero, passero - a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719)
    • battle of the philippine sea, philippine sea - a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte
    • santiago, santiago de cuba - a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the United States fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape
    • battle of the spanish armada - in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England
    • battle of trafalgar, trafalgar - a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded)
    • tsushima - a naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War (1905); the Japanese fleet defeated the Russian fleet in the Korean Strait

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