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Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted. -- Sun Tzu |
USS Annapolis (Gunboat # 10, PG-10, later IX-1), 1897-1940(97 total words in this text)(2030 Reads)  From 1901 until 1918, Annapolis was active in the Pacific, on duty in Asiatic waters and off Central America. During World War I, she was transferred to the Gulf of Mexico, but returned to the Pacific in 1919. The next year, she began two decades with the Pennsylvania State Nautical School. Annapolis was struck from the Navy List in June 1940. |
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1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
