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Bravery without forethought causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain. -- Ts`ao Kung |
USS Solace (1898-1930, later AH-2)(111 total words in this text)(1451 Reads)  In 1899, Solace steamed to Europe and continued eastward through Asiatic waters to San Francisco Bay. She remained in the Pacific, mainly as a transport, until 1908, when she was ordered to the Atlantic. Solace was an Atlantic Fleet Hospital Ship from 1909 until decommissioned in July 1921. Designated AH-2 in 1920, the ship was retained in reserve until 1930, when she was sold for scrapping. |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
