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:

    “And who, in time, knows whither we may vent
    The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores
    This gain of our best glory shall be sent,
    T’enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
    What worlds in th’yet unformed Occident
    May come refined with th’accents that are ours?”
    —Samuel Daniel (c.1562–1619)

    “They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)