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Wars are not won by evacuations. -- Winston Churchill |
Hopestill, an 83-ton motor yacht, was built in 1916 at City Island, New York. Acquired by the Navy in May 1917 and commissioned the following July as USS Hopestill (SP-191), she was employed as a Third Naval District harbor patrol craft and New York Naval Hospital medical transport boat during World War I and into 1919. Hopestill was sold to a private owner in September 1919.
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |