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	Battle of the Rice Boats
		The Battle of the Rice Boats was a battle of the American Revolution that took place in the Savannah River on the border between the Province of Georgia and the Province of South Carolina.
		The battle, which pitted colonial militia against the British Navy, took place on March 2 – March 3, 1776.
		Further north, a group of merchant ships carrying rice was attacked by British warships on March 2, 1776 and their cargoes of rice were seized.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/ba/battle_of_the_rice_boats.html (216 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battle of the Rice Boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Battle of the Rice Boats was a battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place in the Savannah River on the border between the Province of Georgia and the Province of South Carolina.
		Amid messages asking for the medical aid boat and questions as to were their any friendlies were ashore, fragmentary reports on the battle flashed back to command and communications boat and from there back to brigade headquarters.
		Only when the men on the boats were able to catch the VC popping up from their spider holes or from behind mounds of earth could they deal with them effectively.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-the-Rice-Boats (460 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Revolutionary War in Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		News of the battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts caused many Georgians who were wavering in their allegiance to join the radical movement.
		There followed the so-called Battle of the Rice Boats on March 2-3, 1776, when British warships seized rice-laden merchant ships in the Savannah harbor.
		The fleet sailed with the rice and with the fugitive Governor Wright and his chief councilors.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2709 (3740 words)

	Battle of the Rice Boats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Rice Boats was a battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place in the Savannah River on the border between the Province of Georgia and the Province of South Carolina.
		Further north, a group of merchant ships carrying rice was attacked by British warships on March 2, 1776, and their cargoes of rice were seized.
		This article about a battle in the history of the United States is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Rice_Boats (328 words)

	The Men in the Boats
		Amid messages asking for the medical aid boat and questions as to were their any friendlies were ashore, fragmentary reports on the battle flashed back to command and communications boat and from there back to brigade headquarters.
		Only when the men on the boats were able to catch the VC popping up from their spider holes or from behind mounds of earth could they deal with them effectively.
		While the boats were still forming for the second try, the first of sixteen air strikes were ordered for the rest of the operation began.
	www.mrfa.org /menboats.htm (6335 words)

	Come on down to Cajun country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A shrimp boat docks at the Delcambre Boat Docks in south-central Louisiana.
		Nearby is Chretien Point, a cotton plantation built in 1831, part of which is said to have been duplicated for the film "Gone With the Wind." A battle was waged here in 1863 during which the Union Army commandeered the bottom floor and troops camped on the lawn.
		Rice is a major product in southern Louisiana, and farmers cultivate crawfish in the same beds as the rice.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06252/719495-37.stm (1326 words)

	Battle of the Rice Boats, March 2-3, 1776
		Battle of the Rice Boats, March 2-3, 1776
		Towards the end of 1775 James Wright was powerless to stop the rebellious faction in the Georgia House.
		Further north a group of boats containing rice are the target of a British attack on March 2, 1776.
	ngeorgia.com /revolution/amrev7a.html (327 words)

	Save Wild Rice -Other Outside Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A grain of rice is an unlikely object to be at the eye of the storm.
		Wild rice is at the center of a controversy that pits the cultural traditions and environmental concerns of Native Americans against the University of Minnesota’s commitment to academic freedom, and puts the politics of an international movement to preserve unique and local foods up against an agricultural industry concerned foremost with producing a profitable crop.
		But the battle to ban genetically engineered wild rice began several years ago, when Joe LaGarde, a board member of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, learned that Ron Phillips, a researcher at the University of Minnesota, was mapping the wild rice genome.
	www.savewildrice.org /default.asp?active_page_id=42 (2742 words)

	Battle of the Rice Boats, March 2-3, 1776
		Battle of the Rice Boats, March 2-3, 1776
		Towards the end of 1775 James Wright was powerless to stop the rebellious faction in the Georgia House.
		Further north a group of boats containing rice are the target of a British attack on March 2, 1776.
	www.ngeorgia.com /revolution/amrev7a.html (310 words)

	Rice GSA 2005 Yellow pages. Consumer Guide.
		Rice Coffee House, located outside of Sammy's (the cafeteria), is entirely student-run; it serves tea and various forms of coffee (from basic java to cappuccino) and also cookies and muffins.
		Rice EMS is staffed by student, staff, and faculty volunteers who are all trained to the minimum level of Emergency Medical Technician-Basic and are all capable of performing life-saving interventions.
		Rice and Houston are generally felt to have a tolerant atmosphere for gays and lesbians.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~gsa/yellow-pages/rightframe.htm (11867 words)

	Rice's Dissertation Chapter 6
		Rhodes' desire to keep the greater part of their own battle fleet in Carian waters or refitting in the city's arsenals should be, and should have been, explicable in terms of strategic and tactical necessity.
		A full fledged land battle resulted, in which the Roman Apustius fell and the very oarsmen from the galleys were engaged before the attackers were driven back within Patara's walls.
		The "seven" swamped earlier in the battle made a good trophy at Rhodes, and the news of the victory was brought to the Romans at Samos by the seven largest vessels and Eudamus himself.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rrice/chptr6.html (20711 words)

	No. 1540: The Ironclad Turtle:
		In battle, its sails came down and twenty oars powered it.
		A Turtle Boat was equipped with a ram as well as a dragon's head on the prow.
		The oddest thing about this already-odd chapter of naval history is that the Turtle Boat didn't outlive the war.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1540.htm (579 words)

	Vietnam the Final Battle
		Although hundreds of thousands of war refugees were successfully returned to their land, and their villages rebuilt, many former soldiers and servants of the Saigon regime were imprisoned in extremely harsh "re-education camps," together with those who had owed no allegiance to either side.
		The resolution of this is perhaps Vietnam's final battle and the most difficult one of all.
		They were very sympathetic towards the boat people who came home, and they went out of their way to ensure they didn't lose face.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /New_World_Order/Vietnam_FinalBattle.html (6955 words)

	village voice > news > Mondo Washington: Condi Steps In by James Ridgeway
		WASHINGTON, D.C.—The expected appointment of Condi Rice this afternoon as secretary of state signals the rise of another patsy to be window dressing for the president's foreign policy.
		In May 2002, Rice held a press conference to defend Bush in light of new revelations that the president had been warned of an Al Qaeda threat since August 2001.
		Rice said on March 22, 2004, that during the June and July of 2001, "threat spikes were so high.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0446,mondo6,58496,6.html (785 words)

	Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete (washingtonpost.com)
		Frightened that he might be struck by the propellers of one of the boats, he dived to the bottom of the river, where he dumped his weapons and rucksack.
		Everybody aboard Kerry's boat, including Rassmann, says there was fire from both riverbanks, and the official after-action report speaks of all boats receiving "heavy a/w [automatic weapons] and s/a [small arms] from both banks." The Bronze Star citations for Kerry and Thurlow also speak of prolonged enemy fire.
		A report on "battle damage" to Thurlow's boat mentions "three 30 cal bullet holes about super structure." According to Thurlow, at least one of the bullet holes was the result of action the previous day, when he ran into another Vietcong ambush.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A21239-2004Aug21.html (4582 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Sea battle erupts off Sri Lanka
		Both sides blame the other for starting the battle, which came a day after heavy army shelling killed dozens of refugees in the east of the island.
		It said "suicide cadres" were on board the rebel boats and accused them of seeking to sink a passenger ship carrying 300 civilians from Trincomalee to Jaffna.
		Their staff stopped travelling on navy boats earlier this year after the rebels said they could not guarantee their safety.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/6132844.stm (437 words)

	South Carolina SC - The Revolutionary War, The American Revolution
		Battle of Fishing Creek - August 18, 1780 - Catawba Ford, SC Battle of Musgrove's Mill - August 18, 1780
		Battle of Rugeley's Mills / Clermont - December 4, 1780
		Battle of Halfway Swamp - December 12-13, 1780
	www.sciway.net /hist/periods/revolwar.html (732 words)

	The Battle of Yamacraw Bluff/Rice Boats
		The Battle of the Rice Boats took place in the Savannah River on the border between the Province of Georgia and the Province of South Carolina.
		The battle pitted the American militia against the proud British Navy.
		Further north, a group of merchant ships carrying rice was attacked by British warships on the 2nd, and their cargoes of rice were seized.
	www.myrevolutionarywar.com /battles/760302.htm (250 words)

	Tribal sacred sites, wild rice in peril, June 2003
		The rice beds remain, but the ancient knowledge Ackley learned from his ancestors may not be enough to guarantee the beds’ future.
		The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission is studying wild rice here with the aim of saving what’s left of Wisconsin’s native rice beds and seeding promising wetlands that may never have been home to the plant.
		Then the rice is dried over an open fire, danced upon to shake off the outer shells, thrown into the air to dust off remaining particles, then cleaned by hand.
	www.alphacdc.com /treaty/sites_rice.html (2812 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Vietnam \| Tet Offensive: 7th Infantry Regiment in Saigon
		Day after day throughout the fall of 1967 and the early weeks of 1968, his soldiers patrolled a concentric area of operations in the muddy rice paddies, streams, rivers and plantations around the village.
		These men-who routinely battled leeches, immersion foot, heat, mosquitoes, malaria, booby traps and a resilient, slippery enemy-were only the latest representatives of a unit with a remarkable combat lineage.
		The regiment made four amphibious assaults and fought in such costly battles as Sicily, the Volturno River crossing, Anzio, southern France, the Vosges and the Colmar Pocket.
	www.historynet.com /vn/blbattlegroundsaigon (1168 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Vietnam \| 1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century.
		The Saigon that de Genouilly saw on the morning of February 15 was not the teeming city that later would become familiar to millions of American television viewers and hundreds of thousands of American diplomats, journalists, businessmen and soldiers.
		Yet Cochinchina managed to produce a large surplus of rice that was vital to the rest of Vietnam.
	www.historynet.com /vn/bl-battle-ky-hoa-forts (996 words)

	CHAPTER VII - THE MARITIME CAMPAIGN
		To minimize casualties, destruction of the Iraqi surface threat was considered a prerequisite for moving the carrier battle force in the Gulf farther north to bring naval air power closer to targets and to prepare for amphibious operations.
		The battle force ASUW commander was tasked with neutralizing Iraqi naval forces in the northern Persian Gulf, as well as defending Coalition forces in the Persian Gulf and the GCC states' coastlines.
		The ASUW commander was responsible for protecting the battle force from antisurface threats and the strike warfare commander was responsible for conducting strike operations against theater targets.
	es.rice.edu /projects/Poli378/Gulf/gwtxt_ch7.html (16582 words)

	A Colony at War
		In early March, 1776, these ships moved up the Savannah River and seized boats, their cargo (they were loaded with rice), and the men on board.
		A group of men attempted to negotiate the release of the men sent to remove the rigging and the return of the boats.
		An attempt was made to float a burning ship (the Inverness) into the rice boats, which resulted in the destruction of the Nelly.
	ourgeorgiahistory.com /wars/Revolution/revolution07.html (826 words)

	Fountain Powerboats
		A spectacular battle for the lead between Spiderman and UTZ-Castaway ended in disappointment for the Spiderman team as they pulled off the course with a mechanical problem, only to correct the problem and get back into the battle too late to make a difference.
		Through quick thinking and fast reactions, they were able to get the boat back up on plane ahead of the Scarab team to capture 2nd place, and move themselves into 2nd place in the overall points standings.
		Despite a mechanical problem that caused a water leak in the boat and a weigh-out of over 600 pounds over the minimum weight, they appeared to have the entire fleet covered with speed to spare.
	www.fountainpowerboats.com /news/ne_aug2603.htm (696 words)

	Georgia and the American Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Battle of Bulltown Swamp (near Savannah), Battle of Spencer's Hill
		Battle of Kettle Creek - American forces under the command of Andrew Pickens, Elijah Clarke and John Dooley defeat a larger number of British forces in rural Georgia.
		Although this battle was fought in Tennessee many of the Cherokee came from Georgia.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /chronpop/1621 (624 words)

	boats.com - News: Scuttlebutt: March 14
		To be competitive in the Admiral's Cup required a latest generation IMS 50 - the boats built two years earlier were markedly slower, and the ones built two years before that off the pace altogether.
		I am sure there are several good USA big boat one-design teams, for example in the Farr 40 fleet, that would be capable and willing to sail the IC45 as part of the USA AC team.
		To continue the event on the basis of three boat teams will logically require the success of a third international one design class - perhaps the one design 35 is the closest to the mark although I cannot remember seeing even one in Australia.
	www.boats.com /content/boat-articles.jsp?contentid=13140 (2780 words)

	PT Boats, Inc.- Action Report - Into Action,Southwest Pacific – Conquest of New Guinea
		This action, now known as the Battle of the Coral Sea, was fought from the 4th to the 8th of May in waters to the southeast of New Guinea.
		There was nothing for the boats to do there but take part in the island’s weekly battle problem and run as practice targets for the shore radar station.
		None of the personnel in the boats had ever been to sea in them before, and considerable difficulty was had in keeping stations.
	www.ptboats.org /20-07-05-reports-004.html (2315 words)

	"Fortress" Singapore in WW2
		The air battle begins, six Japanese aircraft and one Hurricane are lost in the fight.
		After the first fortnight, during which British army rations were issued, prisoners had to make do with the Japanese ration scales, which consisted mainly of rice, and it was only gradually that the cooks devised means of making it palatable.
		Apart from rice, a little tea, sugar and salt were issued, together with the occasional ration of meat or fish.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/singapore.htm (2434 words)

	Battlelines Book Fox Company
		Fox and handful of other rifle companies leave the rice paddies twenty miles to the south and fly into Hue to defend the beleaguered US command post and retake the city.
		In this bloody battle Fox suffers twenty-one killed and over 150 wounded, with many of the men wounded twice.
		No longer are the firefights over the small hamlets surrounded by rice fields; rather, now the brief enemy encounters are over the control of valley paths that lace the steep, lush mountains.
	www.battlelinesbook.com /ChaptSums.htm (3118 words)

	A Colony at War
		In early March, 1776, these ships moved up the Savannah River and seized boats, their cargo (they were loaded with rice), and the men on board.
		A group of men attempted to negotiate the release of the men sent to remove the rigging and the return of the boats.
		An attempt was made to float a burning ship (the Inverness) into the rice boats, which resulted in the destruction of the Nelly.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /wars/Revolution/revolution07.html (826 words)

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