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Anna B. Smith, a 70' 6" schooner, was built in 1892 at Little Choptank River, Maryland. A working craft of typical Chesapeake Bay type, she was owned by the Conservation Commission of Maryland when the Navy took her over for World War I service in August 1917. During the next year, Anna B. Smith was assigned to the Fifth Naval District and served on Maryland and Virginia waters. She was decommissioned and returned to her owner in late November 1918.
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |