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	USS Alexandria
		Launched in the autumn of 1774 as relations between the American colonies and the mother country grew increasingly tense Black Prince was fitted out quickly so that she could load and sail for Bristol on the last day of 1774.
		Alfred was placed in commission on 3 December 1775, Capt. Dudley Saltonstall in command, and became Hopkins' flagship.
		Alfred was inactive through the summer for a number of reasons, but high on the list of her problems were want of funds and a shortage of men.
	www.multied.com /navy/Brigatines/Alfred.html (1348 words)

	Major Samuel Nicholas, Continental Marines (ca.1744—1790)
		Recruiting for duty aboard the 24-gun frigate Black Prince (later renamed Alfred) began at Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern whose owner, Robert Mullan, also was appointed captain.
		Nicholas’s commission in writing and established his pay at $32 per month (this document, signed by John Hancock, was the first to be issued for the Continental Naval Service, predating those of other early officers including Esek Hopkins and John Paul Jones, both of whom were shipmates on Alfred’s first cruise).
		Capt. Nicholas was still on board Alfred during her pursuit of the British ship Glasgow off the Rhode Island coast on April 6, and saw his second lieutenant killed while at his side on the quarterdeck during the 3-hour battle
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/ussnicholas/samuel_nicholas.html (660 words)

	One Thousand Years On The New Hampshire Seacoast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		USS Thresher, a submarine built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1961 is lost with all hands during tests off Cape Cod.
		USS Portsmouth, a Los Angeles class submarine named after the city of Portsmouth NH is launched.
		USS Hampton, a Los Angeles class submarine named after the city of Hampton NH is launched.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/pamphlets/timeline.htm (4932 words)

	Today In History: 1775 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
		After receiving the USS Alfred, the Continental fleet consisted of six ships under the command of Admiral Esek Hopkins, the first Commodore and only Commander-In-Chief the US Navy ever had.
		She was built as Black Prince, and served as Alfred.
		There they took three prizes: on the 11th, the brigantine Active, bound from Liverpool to Halifax with an assorted cargo, the next day, the armed transport Mellish, laden with winter uniforms for British troops at Quebec; and, on the 16th, the snow Kitty, bound from Gaspé; to Barbados with oil and fish.
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	Crawford
		Alfred T. Mahan, Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812, 2 vols.
		Dudley, “Alfred Thayer Mahan on the War of 1812,” 150.
		Contrast, for example, the accounts of the engagement between USS Wasp and HMS Reindeer in Roosevelt, Naval War of 1812 (Annapolis, 1987), 293—97, and in Stephen W. Duffy, Captain Blakely and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001), 202—16.
	www.ijnhonline.org /volume1_number1_Apr02/article_crawford_roosevelt_1812.doc.htm (2875 words)

	The History Place - This Month in History
		Famous for her shooting ability, she joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885 and was one of the star attractions for 17 years.
		The formal surrender ceremony occurred later, on September 2, 1945, on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		He once wrote, "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." His poem Old Ironsides aroused popular sentiment in the 1830s which helped to save the frigate USS Constitution from destruction.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/calendar/august.htm (4475 words)

	JAG's Flags of the American Revolution
		This flag was first flown by Captain John Paul Jones on the USS Ranger.
		It quickly spread in popularity among some colonists and was adapted to use in some variations of the flags used to defy the British and to unify the colonists.
		This flag was raised on the Liberty pole in Taunton, MA on 21 October 1774.
	www.nwinfo.net /~jagriffin/revflag.htm (2428 words)

	Pitt's Past
		Starting in 1924, a campaign was begun to preserve the old house, which had served as the courthouse from 1760 until 1774.
		As of 1993, Charles Alfred Forbes owned the pond, and Patrick J. and Sonya M. Fiscus operated the house as a bed and breakfast.
		Comparing today's figures to the early days, teachers would actually think their occupation is one of the best.
	www.ecu.edu /cs-lib/ncc/PittPast.cfm (16466 words)

	Military Men
		Alfred von Tirpitz was born in Kustin, Brandenburg in 1849.
		As First Lieutenant in Alfred, he was the first to hoist the Grand Union flag on a Continental warship.
		Launching in a rough sea from the heaving deck of the carrier USS Hornet, the crews knew that even if they achieved success, they were not to return.
	members.tripod.com /edward_weigert/military_men.htm (10307 words)

	American Patriotic Illustration - Illustration Chart
		USS Missouri "Mighty Mo" - This Iowa-class battleship is one of 4 sister battleships, including the USS Iowa, USS New Jersey, and the USS Wisconsin, all of which took part in either WWII (1939-1945), the Korean Conflict (1950-1953), or Vietnam 19-19).
		USS Monitor - John Ericsson designed a new type of war ship for the Union Navy, made of iron rather than the traditional wood.
		Alfred Vail (who was working with Morse on developing this technology) transmitted the nomination information to Morse in Washington, DC.
	www.eaglefliesfree.com /illustration_chart.htm (10937 words)

	01 Aug History: This Date
		On 02 August North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked the destroyer USS Maddox which was conducting a De Soto mission in the area.
		Although it was questionable whether the second attack actually happened or not, the incident provided the rationale for retaliatory air attacks against the North Vietnamese and the subsequent Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which became the basis for the initial escalation of the war in Vietnam and ultimately the insertion of US combat troops into the area.
		1774 Oxygen is isolated from air by chemist Carl Wilhelm and scientist Joseph Priestly.
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		Graves failed to seize an opportunity to fall upon the French fleet whilst it headed for the open sea, and several of his own ships suffered heavily, one subsequently having to be scuttled.
		As a result, Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Harold R. Stark) directs Commander Atlantic Squadron (Rear Admiral Alfred W. Johnson) to maintain an offshore patrol to report "in confidential system" the movements of all foreign men-of-war approaching or leaving the east coast of the United States and approaching and entering or leaving the Caribbean.
		She was assigned to and operated in the Southwest Pacific area including Leyte, etc. 1945 - Escort carrier USS Tinian launched 1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was arrested in Yokohama.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/september/05Sep.txt (1512 words)

	CABO VERDE CHRONOLOGICAL REFERENCES
		1774 (September) to 1775 (February) 22,666 people die in the archipelago.
		The USS Constitution("Old Ironsides") served with this squadron in Cape Verde.
		Attorney Alfred J. Gomes (1897-1974) rallies the Cape Verdean community to establish the Seamen's Memorial Fund to provide scholarship assistance.
	virtualcapeverde.net /news2/modules/Downloads/docs/cv_chronological_references.htm (10810 words)

	The Spanish American-Filipino-Cuban War
		By 1900, Congress became more committed to supporting a modern navy, largely because they were influenced by the writings of US Navy Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan and by US experiences during the Spanish American War.
		According to Benjamin Keen, the island's population grew from 171,620 in 1774 to 1,396,530 in 1861-and 30% of these inhabitants were African or of African descent.
		The "Yellow Press" gathered more support in these calls for independence from US business leaders who were heavily invested in Cuba by US politicians committed to expansionism, and by President William McKinley who expressed concern about the chaos in Cuba and the need to restore order to the island.
	faculty.northseattle.edu /mnutting/seas/amfilcubwar.html (1485 words)

	North Carolina Department of Cutural Resources
		Letter from Commander Samuel Phillips Lee, off Charleston in command of USS Vandalia, describing activities of blockade vessels, expressing his wish for a better ship and more action, and commenting on Captain Mercer and Lieutenant L. Sartori, Captain Harwood of the Ordnance Bureau, and Joseph Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
		Scrapbook containing material concerning the silver service presented to USS North Carolina in 1907, its loan to the state by the Navy Department in 1923, and its return for use on USS Raleigh.
		Papers of Waddell, U.S. Navy officer and commander of CSS Shenandoah, including his commendation from the commander of USS Release (1857); his synopsis of the cruise of Shenandoah; and copy of his surrender to the British government.
	www.history.navy.mil /sources/nc/sa4.htm (3595 words)

	American Revolution Round Table Program Webpage
		He is also the author of USS Constellation: A Short History of the Last All-Sail Warship Built by the U.S. Navy (Donning, 2000), and a number of journal and magazine articles on military and naval history topics.
		The speaker illustrated the rather surprising fact that the regular 'Union Flag' was used by the American colonists in the pre-Revolutionary period as a symbol of their resistance to British policies.
		The use of the Union Flag, by the Americans reflected an ambiguity, at the time, in the minds of many rebels that they were fighting as true English subjects for their rights against a despotic parliament, and not to separate from England.
	xenophongroup.com /patriot/arrt/arrtprgm.htm (20914 words)

	Major Samuel Nicholas, Continental Marines (ca.1744—1790)
		Recruiting for duty aboard the 24-gun frigate Black Prince (later renamed Alfred) began at Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern whose owner, Robert Mullan, also was appointed captain.
		It was the Marines’ first-ever amphibious landing and the most successful naval operation of the Revolutionary War.
		Capt. Nicholas was still on board Alfred during her pursuit of the British ship Glasgow off the Rhode Island coast on April 6, and saw his second lieutenant killed while at his side on the quarterdeck during the 3-hour battle
	www.ussnicholas.org /samuel_nicholas.html (641 words)

	Descendancy of Charles Medaris (5)
		She and Daniel had two children: Alfred Smith was born 03 June 1857; Andrew Smith was born 04 Sept. 1859 in Decatur County, GA. He died May 4, 1939.
		Alfred moved to Georgia around 1826 with his brother Thomas.
		Alfred and family move to Iowa around 1850 or 1851.
	www.mindspring.com /~kellcin/charles.htm (10555 words)

	06 Aug History: This Date
		Alfred P. Southwick applauded Kemmler's execution with the declaration, "We live in a higher civilization from this day on," while American inventor George Westinghouse, an innovator of the use of electricity, remarked, "They would have done better with an axe."
		The C.S.S. Arkansas, the most feared Confederate ironclad on the Mississippi River, is blown up by her crew after suffering mechanical problems during a battle with the USS.
		However, he educated his sons in the classics, and Alfred Tennyson, the fourth of 12 children, went to Trinity College at Cambridge in 1827.
	free.prohosting.com /~paxmundi/history/h4aug/h4aug06.html (10764 words)

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		First published by Alfred Knopf in 1919, this is the book that alerted the West to the richness and variety of Chinese literature.
		Arthur Waley (1889-1966), a shy reclusive scholar, was one of the earliest champions of Asian literature in the English-speaking world.This splendid collection of Chinese poetry, accompanied by delightful introductory and descriptive essays, spans more than 1000 years.
		James R. Durand served on three American war vessels, including the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), was taken prisoner of war, and then impressed into the British Navy.
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	American Lives
		1942: The submarine USS S-26 was sunk in a collision with USS PC-460 in the Gulf of Panama; 46 crewmen died.
		1942: The oiler USS Neches was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub off the Hawaiian Islands; 57 crew members were killed.
		1945: In the Pacific, kamikazes and aerial bombs hit the USS Ticonderoga, the USS Maddox and the USS Langley, while an accidental explosion of bombs carried by a TBM Avenger damaged the USS Hancock.
	www.blogstudio.com /AmHistory/01_18_04___01_24_04_Americans_in_History_archive.html (2939 words)

	History: October 26
		King Alfred the Great, Saxon King of Wessex, southwest England; soldier and scholar, he fought against the invading Danes and formed England's first navy.
		Charles V of France, known as 'the Wise', dedicates a monument this day, to his personal chef for a recipe for pickled fish.
		At 7:00 AM, the first Soviet ship, the freighter Marulca, is stopped and boarded by personnel from the USS Joseph P. Kennedy (destroyer).
	members.tripod.com /historiation2/daysoctober/october26.html (1454 words)

	Swain Country
		Alfred checked the forward progress of the invaders in 878.
		This family lived in Tyrrell County until a part of the county was taken to form Martin County in 1774.
		The USS Elizabeth C. Stanton (AP-69)nicknamed "Lucky Lizzie": Honors: Fedela, Sicily, Salerno, St. Tropez, Okinawa, Sasebo; Ports of Call: Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides), Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Guam (Mariana Islands), Tinian (Mariana Islands), Saipan (Mariana Islands), Pearl Harbor, Kauai-Manila, Ulithi (Caroline Islands), Noumea (New Caledonia.
	friends.peoria.lib.il.us /community/swaincountry.html (17713 words)

	San Diego Landmarks
		The granite obelisk standing in the older part of the grounds is a memorial to sixty men who were killed by a boiler explosion aboard the USS Bennington, a gunboat, on July 21, 1905, in San Diego Harbor.
		The feast that followed the blessing of the house in 1829, as described by Alfred Robinson in Life in California, set a pattern for entertainments in ensuing years.
		In 1774 Captain Juan Bautista de Anza opened the overland trail from Sonora to California which bears his name.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /books/millslandmarks/landmark.htm (12676 words)

	Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series J:
		Correspondence is dated 1885-1912 and includes letters he wrote Martha from Hong Kong, 1885; Uruguay, 1891; Atlanta, 1892; aboard the USS Indiana, 1897; and Key West, 1898; and a few letters he received from fellow officers, friends, and relatives.
		Naval papers are mostly for 1898, when Ferebee served aboard the USS Indiana and U.S. flagship New York in Santiago de Cuba from May to August.
		On 2 September 1835, Mary Steele was informed that Cressa, a slave hired by a man in Yorkville, South Carolina, was being returned because of her "misconduct" with the agent who hired her.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj13.asp (16482 words)

	French Navy Web Page
		However, news of the peace arrived on 24 March, and the plan was aborted.
		Comte de Guichen's French ship was among other French ships that saluted the USS Ranger under John Paul Jones in the harbor of Quiberon (13 February 1778).
		This was essentially the first recognition of the American Flag in the form of the ‘Stars and Stripes' by a foreign Government.
	xenophongroup.com /mcjoynt/marine.htm (6659 words)

	HUSSEY MANUSCRIPT
		He was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1892 and commissioned an ensign July 1, 1894 while serving aboard the USS Oregon.
		He was captain of the USS Idaho in 1920-21.
		He was born at Falmouth, Maine and was baptized there May 15, 1774, according to Falmouth church records.
	bz.llano.net /gowen/hussey_millenium/husseyms_102.html (8178 words)

	Pioneer America, Part 1
		In Quebec the governor, Frederick Haldimand, decreed that the English-speaking newcomers should not be merged into the French communities, whose culture and laws were protected by the Quebec Act of 1774.
		At his direction, 6,000 of the 7,000 Loyalists who went to Quebec were relocated to the upper St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, putting a safe distance between them and the French-Canadian cities on the lower St. Lawrence.
		When a British frigate fired on the USS Chesapeake in December 1807, just outside American territorial waters, most Americans were angry enough to start a war.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /northam/na03a.html (14218 words)

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