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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war -- John Andrew Holmes |
Takana, a 68 gross ton wooden steam harbor tug, was built in 1915 at Solomons Island, Maryland. She was chartered by the Navy in July 1918 and operated as USS Takana (ID # 3039) in the New York Harbor area for the rest of World War I, and for several months after the Armistice. The tug was returned to her owner in June 1919.
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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. |