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Embarkation

Embarkation \Em`bar*ka"tion\, n.

  1. The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

  2. That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits.
    --Smollett.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
embarkation

1640s, from French embarcation, noun of action from embarquer (see embark) or from Spanish embarcacion.

Wiktionary
embarkation

n. 1 The act of embarking. 2 The process of loading military personnel and vehicles etc into ships or aircraft.

WordNet
embarkation

n. the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft [syn: boarding, embarkment] [ant: debarkation]

Usage examples of "embarkation".

Flanders made him overlook all considerations, either of domestic discontents or of commotions among the Scots, his embarkation had been so long retarded by the various obstructions thrown in his way, that he lost the proper season for action, and after his arrival made no progress against the enemy.

Flemings were now in alliance with them: all the nobility of France were engaged in this enterprise: the English were kept in alarm: great preparations were made for the reception of the invaders: and though the dispersion of the French ships by a storm, and the taking of many of them by the English, before the embarkation of the troops, freed the kingdom from the present danger, the king and council were fully sensible that this perilous situation might every moment return upon them.

All officers and soldiers in the service of king James, comprehending even the rapparees, willing to go beyond sea, were at liberty to inarch in bodies to the places of embarkation, to be conveyed to the continent with the French officers and troops.

James to the lowest ebb of despondence, as it frustrated the whole scheme of his embarkation, and overwhelmed his friends in England with grief and despair.

They began their march to Picardy, and a great number of vessels was assembled for their embarkation at Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne.

Germans settled there, attend with sledges, on which they draw the loaded batteaux to the next place of embarkation upon the same river.

Hawke was sent with fourteen ships of the line and one frigate to cruise in the bay of Biscay, after repeated intelligence had been received that the French fleet had sailed for the West Indies, and the eleven ships remaining at Brest and Rochefort were in want of hands and cannon, so that they could never serve to cover any embarkation or descent, consequently Mr.

Various were the impediments which obstructed the embarkation of the troops for several weeks, while Mr.

He recited the positive and credible intelligence received, as well before the embarkation as during the voyage, of the alarm given to France, and the preparations made along the French coasts from Brest and St.

As the troops landed the boats were sent back for the second embarkation, which was superintended by brigadier Townshend.

Very large preparations should be made at the embarkation ports, and the assembly of the greatest amount of barges and invasion craft should be made, culminating in July and August.

Whilst he amused the eyes of the multitude, four hundred vessels were prepared for the embarkation of his troops.

Before the general embarkation, the Norman duke despatched Bohemond with fifteen galleys to seize or threaten the Isle of Corfu, to survey the opposite coast, and to secure a harbor in the neighborhood of Vallona for the landing of the troops.

His embarkation was clandestine: and, if we may credit a tale of the princess Anne, he passed the hostile sea closely secreted in a coffin.

Byzantine princes, who had provoked the unequal conflict, promoted the embarkation and march of these formidable guests.