| NOUN | an amphibious operation | amphibious operations |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Finding themselves hopelessly surrounded, the Confederate remnants surrendered, and Fort Fisher fell to the largest amphibious operation in American history prior to World War II.
- In the last great amphibious operation of the war in Europe, British Commandos and Canadian troops captured the island in the late autumn of 1944, clearing the way for Antwerp to be opened and for the easement of the critical logistical problems the Allies were suffering.
- He attempted to reverse this decision by informing Churchill that China would continue to build up its Yunnan forces but would not move into Burma unless the planned amphibious operation was launched as scheduled.
- The landing at Marathon by the Persians on 9 September 490 BC was the largest amphibious operation until it was eclipsed by the landings at the Battle of Gallipoli.
- However, his amphibious operation against the Spanish port of Cartagena de Indias was a disastrous defeat.
- In August 1776, the British forces under William Howe on Staten Island undertook an amphibious operation across the Narrows and landed in Brooklyn, where they routed Washington's Army at the Battle of Long Island.
- During World War II, Operation Begonia was the airborne counterpart to the amphibious Operation Jonquil, conducted by British SAS and Eighth Army Airborne between Ancona and Pescara, Italy, from 2–6 October 1943.
- The Germans were aware that the Allies might launch a large-scale amphibious operation some time in summer 1942.
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