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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. -- Alexander Haig |
USS Montgomery (Cruiser # 9, C-9), 1894-1919(105 total words in this text)(1478 Reads)  Montgomery was stationed in the South Atlantic in 1899-1900. She thereafter stayed in the vicinity of the U.S. Atlantic seaboard, serving as a cruiser, torpedo experimental ship and Naval Militia training ship. Renamed USS Anniston in March 1918, she was part of the American Patrol Detachment during the First World War. Decommissioned in May 1918, the old cruiser was sold in November 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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
