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Galleons in sentence

9 examples of Galleons in a sentence

It traverses continents in seconds, people get shot and nothing happens to them, swords set on fire, samuari fight on sinking galleons, David Essex is the epitome of slimey villainy and John Rhys Davies is just the dude.
Yet it wasn't short of money, provided that its galleons, laden with gold and silver from America, could enter its ports.
"Admiral de Chateau-Renault was so indecisive as to obey this directive, and the galleons entered the Bay of Vigo.
So it was essential to hurry and empty the galleons before the allied fleets arrived, and there would have been ample time for this unloading, if a wretched question of trade agreements hadn't suddenly come up.
Now then, unloading the ingots from those galleons at the port of Vigo would have been a violation of their rights.
But when he saw that the convoy's wealth was about to fall into enemy hands, he burned and scuttled the galleons, which went to the bottom with their immense treasures."
Here, in this very place, those galleons carrying treasure to the Spanish government had gone to the bottom.
"A company chartered by the Spanish government to search for these sunken galleons.
The millions lost in the Bay of Vigo, in 1702, by the galleons of Spain, furnished him with a mine of inexhaustible riches which he devoted always, anonymously, in favor of those nations who fought for the independence of their country.