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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- General George Patton Jr |
Samson was a 230-ton stern-wheel steamer built at California, Pennsylvania, in 1860. During much of 1862, she served with Colonel Charles Ellet's ram fleet in the Mississippi River area. Samson was transferred to the U.S. Navy in November 1862 and spent the rest of the Civil War as a floating machine shop with the Mississippi Squadron. Sold in August 1865, she was employed as a merchant vessel until broken up in 1869.
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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. |