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    Ships of the Spanish-American War, Modern U.S. Navy Monitors

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    The U.S. Navy employed six modern monitors during the Spanish-American War. The two Pacific Coast ships were sent to the Philippines in June 1898 to reinforce Dewey's squadron. Despite having the limited steaming range and seakeeping abilities of ships designed for coastal defense missions, the other four actively operated in the Caribbean area on patrol, blockade and bombardment duties. These six monitors had been completed earlier in the 1890s and continued in naval service until after the First World War.
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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    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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