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    A compartment aboard ship near officers' stateroom used as officers' mess room. The wardroom originally was known as the Wardrobe Room, being the place where officers kept their spare wearing apparel and also any loot they won while on service. It was not until years later that it served its present purpose and became the officers' mess-room.

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    1667: The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English.

    1862: Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the battle of Chickahominy Creek.

    1863: In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fails to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing.

    1864: Union General Ulysses S. Grant stretches his lines further around Petersburg, Virginia, accompanied by his commander-in-chief, Abraham Lincoln.

    1900: General Arthur MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule.

    1915: Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.

    1919: Germans scuttle their own fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

    1942: The Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya.

    1945: Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to American troops.


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