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The moral is to the physical as three to one -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
USS Mosquito(212 total words in this text)(1833 Reads)  I (Sloop, 4 guns) The first Mosquito was a sloop purchased at Philadelphia late in 1775 for the new Continental Navy. She patrolled the Delaware River until destroyed during the British conquest of Philadelphia led by the Howe brothers in October 1777. II Barge The second Mosquito, one of the cutters built for Potomac at the Washington Navy Yard, had an active role in controlling pirates in the West Indies. In 1823, Commodore David Porter formed his "Mosquito Fleet", part of the West India Squadron, of barges Mosquito, Gallinipper, Gnat, Sandfly, and Midge, operating from Thompson's Island. In April 1823, Mosquito, Peacock, and Gallinipper had a running fight with a pirate ship 20 miles out of Havana, chasing the pirate ashore. Captain Cassin of Peacock reported the capture of schooner Pilot the 16th. Mosquito and Gallinipper discovered pirate schooner Catalina and a launch approaching merchant vessels 11 July. Giving chase, they captured her, killing the crew. In 1824, an epidemic of yellow fever spread through the fleet, reducing the effectiveness of the barges, which operated without regular officers or crew. On 1 January 1825 Mosquito was on patrol off Mantanze, but was phased out early in the summer. |
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U.S. troops under William Henry Harrison take Fort Meigs from British and Canadian troops.
1859: Threatened by the advancing French army, the Austrian army retreats across the River Sesia in Italy. 1864: Union troops secure a crucial pass during the Atlanta campaign. In the spring and summer of 1864, Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph Johnston conducted a slow and methodical campaign to seize control of Atlanta. 1915: German and French forces fight the Battle of Artois. 1936: Fascist Italy captures the city of Addis Abba, Ethiopia and annexes the country. 1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured at sea along with its Enigma machine by the Royal Navy. 1945: Herman Goering is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army. 1951: Three hundred and twelve Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy planes hit Sinuiju Airfield in one of the largest air raids of the war. 1955: Ten years after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, West Germany formally joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). |
