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The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. -- Karl von Clausewitz |
USS MONTANA (BB-51)(201 total words in this text)(1725 Reads)  Length Overall: 684' Extreme Beam: 106'" Normal Displacement: Tons:43,200 Mean Draft: 33'4" Designed Complement: 1351 Armament Main: (12) 16"/50 Secondary: (16) 6"/53 (6) 3"/50 AA Torpedo Tubes: (2) 21" submerged Armor : Belt: 13 1/2" Turrets: 18" Deck: 2nd (armor) deck: 3 1/2" 3rd (splinter) deck: 1 1/4" Conning Tower: 16" Designed Speed: 23 Designed Shaft Horsepower: 60,000 Engines: Manufacturer: Westinghouse Type: Turbine, electric drive Screws: 4 class. SOUTH DAKOTA Authorized 4 March 1917, MONTANA (BB-51) was laid down 1 battleship by Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Calif., was canceled 8 February 1922 by the Washington Treaty on the limitation of naval armament. MONTANA was struck from the Navy list 24 August 1923 and sold 25 October 1923 to be scrapped. |
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1775:
American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
1796: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy. 1857: The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British. 1861: Union troops and civilians riot in St. Louis. 1862: The Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee takes place. 1863: General Thomas J. Jackson dies of pneumonia a week after losing his arm when his own troops accidentally fired on him during the Battle of Chancellorsville. 1865: Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia. 1917: Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic. 1940: As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain. 1941: Englands House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz as 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs. |
