Treasure Fleet

Treasure fleet can refer to:

  • Spanish treasure fleet
  • Chinese treasure fleets of the Ming Dynasty, and especially the fleet of treasure ships led by Zheng He.

Famous quotes containing the words treasure and/or fleet:

    “I have had no other treasure in this world than to see you once perfect and complete, as much in virtue, honesty and wisdom, as in all free and honest learning, and so leave you after my death like a mirror representing my person—your father—if not as excellent in fact as I would wish, certainly so in desire.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
    For so appears this fleet majestical.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)