USS Aroostook was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Aroostook was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways...
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USS Aroostook has been the name of three ships of the United States Navy. USS Aroostook (1861), was a wooden-hulled, steam-propelled, screw gunboat....
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USS Aroostook (1861) USS Cayuga (1861) USS Chippewa (1861) USS Chocura (1861) USS Huron (1861) USS Itasca (1861) USS Kanawha (1861) USS Katahdin (1861)...
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(SS-60/SF-2) USS AA-3 (SS-61/SF-3) USS A. C. Powell (1861) USS A. Childs (1865) USS A. Collier (1864) USS A. D. Vance (1862) USS A. DeGroat (1863) USS A. G....
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destroyed blockade running sloop Josephine, previously forced aground by USS Aroostook near Fort Morgan. After repairs at New Orleans, Louisiana from 6 July-19...
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USS Mahaska (1861) to Fort Powhatan. A party which went ashore 30 May found no evidence that the forts had been occupied. The next day USS Aroostook (1861)...
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USS Unadilla was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for service with the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was the lead ship in her class...
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Samuel Rhoads Franklin (section Aroostook)
James River. In June 1862, Franklin was appointed commander of the USS Aroostook. Franklin was promoted to lieutenant commander on July 16. On August...
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USS Galena was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship was initially assigned to the...
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commanded the James River Flotilla, including the USS Galena, the ironclad Monitor, and the 90-day gunboat Aroostook in an expedition up the James River in May...
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Orleans. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, she was purchased by the Navy, commissioned as USS De Soto, and sent to assist with the blockade of...
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the individual ships, ranging from a complement of 65 (Sciota) to 94 (Aroostook), with an average per ship of 80. The reason for these apparent discrepancies...
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USRC Naugatuck (redirect from USS E. A. Stevens (1862))
included the Navy's wooden steam gunboats USS Aroostook and USS Port Royal, the ironclads USS Monitor and USS Galena, and E.A. Stevens. The Federal warships...
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lumbermen were spotted cutting down trees on an American estate near the Aroostook River. When American woodcutters rushed to stand guard, a shouting match...
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James Buchanan (section Presidency (1857–1861))
"surrender" of lands to the United Kingdom, as he demanded the entire Aroostook River Valley for the United States. In the Oregon Boundary Dispute, Buchanan...
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the lands disputed during the Aroostook War, a boundary dispute with Britain in 1838–1839. The passion of the Aroostook War signaled the increasing role...
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The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1829 to 1861 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the presidential administrations of Andrew...
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avoided war with Britain despite several incidents, including the bloodless Aroostook War and the Caroline Affair. Van Buren's inability to deal effectively...
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the gunboat USS Aroostook in the Western Gulf Squadron, which was enforcing the Union blockade of Confederate ports in Texas. Aboard Aroostook, he finally...
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Webster–Ashburton Treaty (category Aroostook War)
Canada). Signed under John Tyler's presidency, it resolved the so-called Aroostook War. The provisions of the treaty included: The settlement of the location...
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History of Maine (section The Aroostook War)
New Brunswick and Quebec. This would set the stage for the bloodless "Aroostook War" a half century later. During the War of 1812, Maine suffered the...
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Fort Huger (category 1861 establishments in Virginia)
squadron that also attacked Fort Boykin. The warships included USS Galena, Aroostook, and Port Royal under Commander John Rodgers as part of the Peninsula...
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6 – November 1, 1838 The Territory of Iowa is organized, July 4, 1838 Aroostook War, 1838–1839 Honey War, 1839 William Henry Harrison becomes the 9th...
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Potomac Flotilla (category 1861 establishments in the United States)
three vessels, USS Thomas Freeborn, USS Reliance, and USS Resolute. He arrived at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., on 20 May 1861 on board his...
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Virginia-Kentucky, 1878–1891) Toledo War (1835, Michigan Territory-Ohio) Aroostook War (1838–39, U.S.-Britain) Honey War (1839, Iowa Territory-Missouri)...
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John Tyler (category Virginia Secession Delegates of 1861)
by the United States. A foreign crisis erupted in an offshoot of the Aroostook War, that ended in 1839. Citizens of Maine clashed with citizens of New...
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despite a few tense moments, such as the Aroostook War in 1838–39, the Pig War in 1859, and the Trent Affair in 1861. In late 1813, emperor Alexander I of...
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as a second lieutenant. Later in that year Wayne participated in the Aroostook War over the boundary of Maine. In 1841, he became the assistant instructor...
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had reached a low point in the aftermath of the Caroline affair and the Aroostook War of the late 1830s. Webster and other Whig leaders favored closer relations...
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the fort was fired upon by a Union Navy fleet consisting of the USS Galena, Aroostook, and Port Royal as part of the Peninsula campaign, an unsuccessful...
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