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Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. -- Sun Tzu |
Mississippi Light Stations(154 total words in this text)(2424 Reads)  MISSISSIPPI SOUND Station Established: 1848 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1848 Operational? YES Automated? YES Deactivated: n/a Foundation Materials: BRICK Construction Materials: BRICK ENCASED BY CAST IRON Tower Shape: CONICAL Markings/Pattern: WHITE TOWER/BLACK BALUSTRADE Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER 1848 CAT ISLAND LIGHT EAST PASCAGOULA RIVER LIGHT HORN ISLAND LIGHT LAKE BORGNE LIGHT MERRILL SHELL BANK LIGHT PASS CHRISTIAN LIGHT ROUND ISLAND LIGHT MISSISSIPPI SOUND/EAST PASCAGOULA RIVER Station Established: 1833 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1859 Operational? NO Automated? n/a Deactivated: 1944 Foundation Materials: PILE Construction Materials: BRICK Tower Shape: CONICAL Markings/Pattern: WHITE Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, 1859; REMOVED IN 1944. SHIP ISLAND LIGHT |
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1657:
English Admiral Robert Blake fights his last battle when he destroys the Spanish fleet in Santa Cruz Bay.
1775: British troops begin the siege of Boston. 1809: Napoleon defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria. 1861: Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States army two days after he was offered command of the Union army and three days after his native state, Virginia, seceded from the Union. 1945: Allied bombers in Italy begin a three-day attack on the bridges over the rivers Adige and Brenta to cut off German lines of retreat on the peninsula. 1945: Soviet troops begin their attack on Berlin. 1967: U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War. 1970: In a televised speech, President Nixon pledges to withdraw 150,000 more U.S. troops over the next year "based entirely on the progress" of the Vietnamization program. |
