Flotilla
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"He visited all the ports on our shore of the English Channel and of the German Ocean, the manufacturing towns of Picardy, Belgium, and the Liége district, stayed several days at Brussels and at Antwerp, and returned home to St. Cloud, on August 10th, by way of Rheims and Soissons. This six weeks' journey was employed in preparations for the organization of the flotilla, and in assembling the invading army at Boulogne."--Memoirs Illustrating the History of Napoleon I (1827) by Claude-François de Méneval |
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A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.
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