• The third USS Dolphin was the brig in the United States Navy. Her plans were the basis of other brigs of that time. She was named for the aquatic mammal...
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    Morris Island. Leonidas, was originally built as a whaling bark of 231 tons, 320 feet long. It was active in the Pacific Ocean in 1849, captained by Captain...
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    The first USS Raritan was a wooden-hulled, three-masted sailing frigate of the United States Navy built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, laid down in 1820...
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    breakdown in social organization.[citation needed] Confederate general Leonidas Polk's invasion of Columbus ended Kentucky's policy of neutrality and turned...
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    warrant in the United States Navy. As a midshipman on board the frigate USS Brandywine, he almost immediately began to study the seas and record methods...
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  • Goody Petronelli, American boxer, trainer, and manager (d. 2012) 1924 – Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (d. 2011) 1925 – Denis Lazure, Canadian psychiatrist...
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  • presented with a pony by General Reno for intrepidity on the battlefield. Leonidas Jordan was born in 1845 enlisted in 1861 at age 16 Private Charles H. Bickford...
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  • USS Germantown was a United States Navy sloop-of-war in commission for various periods between 1847 and 1860. She saw service in the Mexican–American...
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    River for the Union forces. Frémont decided to meet Confederate General Leonidas Polk head-on to control the trunk of the Mississippi. In a turning point...
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    made post captain. He took command of the 36-gun fifth rate frigate HMS Leonidas on 17 November. Next, Hope took command of the 32-gun frigate HMS Topaze...
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    voir l'essai Prétendus Créolismes : le couteau dans l'igname, Jean-Robert Léonidas, Cidihca, Montréal 1995 "What Languages Are Spoken in Haiti?". 29 July...
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    www.britishbattles.com. Retrieved 2017-07-09. Mansfield, Edward Deering (1849). The Mexican War (10 ed.). New York: A.S. Barnes & Co. pp. 298. inter alia...
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    Sheerness in 1831, renamed Saint Lawrence in 1844, broken up 1859 HMS Leonidas 1807 – hulked as powder hulk at Sheerness in 1872, sold 1894 HMS Briton...
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    slaves. James K. Polk (1795–1849), 11th President of the United States, he owned slaves most of his adult life. Leonidas Polk (1806–1864), Episcopal bishop...
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    1812 and of the fifth-rate HMS Leonidas in January 1813 during the War of 1812. In HMS Leonidas he captured the privateer USS Paul Jones in May 1813. He was...
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    Mitchell, 2005). ISBN 0-85303-602-0 Petrovsky-Shtern 2011, p. 60. Donskis, Leonidas (2003). Forms of Hatred: The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy...
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  • engineer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1980) 1914 – Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 1981) 1914 –...
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  • Backers Stadium Mayor (1994–1996) and city council member (1993–1999) Leonidas B. Young, II is removed from city council for several felonies related...
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  • visit to the United States begins when the ship carrying him from Hawaii, USS Benicia, docks in San Francisco. The San Diego Natural History Museum is...
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    plantations difficult. Beginning in 1879 with the arrival of the vessel Leonidas, the transport of Indian indentured labourers to Fiji commenced. However...
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  • (d. 1971) 1901 – Ida Mett, Belarusian Jewish anarchist (d. 1973) 1902 – Leonidas Berry, American gastroenterologist (d. 1995) 1905 – Joseph Levis, American...
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    Moniac, class of 1822 Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, class of 1826 Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk, class of 1827 Gen. Jefferson Davis, class of 1828 Gen. Robert E....
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    HMS Hydra (1838) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from A Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849))
    ships: Uniao, on 2 March 1849. Fidalga, on 14 July 1849. Slave vessel, name unknown (possibly Imogene), on 15 October 1849. By 1850 she was at Sheerness...
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  • the Register of the United States Treasury on May 21, 1881. June 12 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. July 2 – Assassination...
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    new designation of the armed force created under the Occupation), Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, ordered his troops to remain in their barracks, the sick...
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    designed as 80-gun sailing two-deckers. They were re-ordered as screw ships in 1849, and Victor Emmanuel was duly reclassified as a 91-gun ship on 26 March 1852...
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  • Confederate victory. September 3 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for...
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    PS Keystone State (category Maritime incidents in October 1849)
    Stone State) was a wooden-hulled American paddle steamer in service between 1849 and 1861. She was built in 1848 in Buffalo, New York, by Bidwell & Banta...
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    naval officer, son of naval officer Henry Aurand, commander of the USS Independence and USS Greenwich Bay, recipient of the Navy Cross and the Legion of Merit...
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    17 – American Civil War: The Confederate submarine Hunley torpedoes the USS Housatonic, becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship (the sub and...
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