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    USS Texas was a pre-dreadnought battleship built by the United States in the early 1890s. The first American battleship commissioned, she was built in...
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  • named the USS Texas for the State of Texas: USS Texas (1892) was a pre-dreadnought battleship that was in commission from 1895 to 1911. USS Texas (BB-35)...
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    construction of battleships with USS Texas in 1892, although its first ship to be designated as such was USS Indiana. Texas and USS Maine, commissioned three...
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    have borne the name Texas: CSS Texas USS Texas (1892) USS Texas (BB-35) USS Texas (DLGN/CGN-39) USS Texas (SSN-775) Outline of Texas List of U.S. state...
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  • McFiggin's Christmas" by Stephen Leacock The Hoodoo War (1875–1876) USS Texas (1892), a battleship of the United States Navy nicknamed "Old Hoodoo" Voodoo...
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    Driggs-Schroeder guns included USS Texas (1892), USS Maine (ACR-1), USS Olympia (C-6), USS New York (ACR-2), and USS Brooklyn (ACR-3). Olympia is preserved...
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    get into port”. A similar design was followed by USS Maine and USS Texas, launched in 1889 and 1892 respectively. By the time they were completed in 1895...
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  • "Old Hoodoo" – USS Texas (1892) "Old Mary" – USS Maryland (BB-46) "The Old Grey Ghost of the Borneo Coast" – HMS Albion "Old Ironsides" – USS Constitution...
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    States Navy's "New Navy" monitors Puritan and Monterey and the battleships Texas and Iowa. The Navy's Policy Board call for a variety of large caliber weapons...
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    Russia) by February Revolutionists. USS Texas was renamed the San Marcos 15 February 1911 to free the name for USS Texas. Formerly Russian battleship Imperator...
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    from 1890 to 1922. He was on the trial board of the Naval battleship USS Texas (1892) and was among the organizers and officers of the Potomac Hospital...
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    ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7. Hartshorn, Byron (24 February 2015). "Visiting the USS Maine around Washington, DC". Retrieved 19 October 2016. "United States of...
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    CM-5/MM-5/MMF-5) USS Terry (DD-25, DD-513) USS Tesota (YN-95/AN-71/ATA-217) USS Teton (AGC-14) USS Tetonkaha (AOG-41) USS Texan (ID-1354) USS Texas (1892, BB-35...
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    USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York-class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned...
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    College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-501-6. Wegner, Dana (2001). "Chapter 2: New Interpretations of How the USS Maine Was Lost"...
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  • in Lake Superior Bay". Twin Cities. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2023-04-27. "U.S.S. Essex". Lake Superior Shipwrecks. Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved...
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    Dallas (redirect from Dallas, Texas/Draft)
    National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas Texas Triangle USS Dallas, 3 ships 2015 attack on Dallas police In ascending order from...
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    Outline of Texas Index of Texas-related articles List of people from Texas USS Texas, 4 ships Elevation adjusted to North American Vertical Datum of 1988...
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    Chester W. Nimitz (category Military personnel from Texas)
    rank of fleet admiral. The USS Nimitz supercarrier, the lead ship of her class, is named after him. Nimitz, a German Texan, was born the son of Anna Josephine...
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  • retired decorated US Marines officer and namesake of USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. Henry A. Barnum (1833–1892), US Civil War general from New York Marcus H. Barnum...
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    oceanographer and hydrographer. He is best remembered as the captain of USS Maine, which exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in 1898 and set off the events...
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    USS Cairo /ˈkeɪroʊ/ is the lead ship of the City-class casemate ironclads built at the beginning of the American Civil War to serve as river gunboats...
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    the tall ship Elissa (the official Tall Ship of Texas) at the Texas Seaport Museum and USS Cavalla and USS Stewart, both berthed at Seawolf Park on nearby...
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  • (album), an album by Tony Oxley USS Advocate (1861), a small fishing sloop captured from the Confederates in 1861 USS Advocate (AM-138), a minesweeper...
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  • Park (U.S. National Park Service)". "CAVALLA WEBSITE – USS Cavalla SS-244 in Galveston Texas". cavalla.org. Retrieved 2024-04-04. "Belos_site_version_4"...
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    USS Olympia (C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected cruiser that saw service with the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. She...
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    undersea warfare. She was the first combat submarine to sink a warship (USS Housatonic), although Hunley was not completely submerged and, following...
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    Union January 9, 1861 – Secessionist forces in South Carolina fire at the USS Star of the West, forcing it to withdraw. January 9 – Mississippi secedes...
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    Carleton F. Bryant (category 1892 births)
    militarytimes.com. Militarytimes Websites. Retrieved June 19, 2018. "USS Texas, Now 30, Still a Mighty Ship". The New York Times. October 13, 1944. p...
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    "Texas History Headlines - 1892 - Battleship USS Texas Launched at Norfolk". Retrieved October 11, 2013. "TEXAS COWBOY REUNION, The Handbook of Texas Online"...
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