• USS Gadsden (AK-182) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during the final months of World War II. She served the Pacific Ocean theatre...
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    flagship USS Alfred on December 20, 1775. Two days later, Congress made Hopkins commander-in-chief of the Continental Navy. He adopted the Gadsden banner...
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  • Look up Gadsden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gadsden is a surname. It may refer to: Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), American soldier and statesman...
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    (SS-252) USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) USS Gadsden (AK-182) USS Gadwall (AM-362/MSF-362) USS Gage (APA-168) USS Gainard (DD-706) USS Gaivota (SP-436) USS Galatea...
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    About 65 of this subtype were complete for the U.S. Navy, like the USS Gadsden built by Walter Butler Shipyard. Those ships were generally named after...
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    USS APc-1 USS APc-2 USS APc-3 USS APc-4 USS APc-5 USS APc-6 USS APc-7 USS APc-8 USS APc-9 USS APc-10 USS APc-11 USS APc-12 USS APc-13 USS APc-14 USS APc-15...
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  • General James Gadsden. For the next two years she carried goods between Newport, Florida, and South Carolina. Gadsden sold Flirt in 1853. "USS Flirt". Dictionary...
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    builtbrooklyn.org Lake Fithian navsource.org Alamosa-class cargo ships, USS Gadsden US Navy USNS Private Jose F. Valdez (T-AG-169) enbridge.com, Enbridge's...
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    stores ship USS Gadsden (AK-182), stores ship USS Megrez (AK-126), stores ship USS Supply (IX-147), stores ship USS Lesuth (AK-125), stores ship USS Naos (AK-105)...
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    provoked, a characteristic expressed by the phrase "Don't tread on me" (see Gadsden flag). Typically the flag's rattlesnake is depicted with red scales on...
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    with USS Philadelphia. 28 July 1804 - Closed on Tripolitan coast with USS Argus, USS Constitution, USS Syren, USS Nautilus, USS Enterprise and USS Scourge...
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    Eagle. September 15, 1955. navsource.org Alamosa-class cargo ships, USS Gadsden US Navy USNS Private Jose F. Valdez (T-AG-169) Spirit Lake Marina website...
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    USS Dortch (DD-670) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. Isaac Foote Dortch was born on 12 December 1883 in Gadsden, Alabama. He graduated...
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    War and U.S. Secretary of State. In the latter office, he negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, the last major acquisition of land in the contiguous United States...
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    impression that an attack had been carried out. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO...
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    look into the history of Memorial Day and Military Appreciation Month". Gadsden Times. Archived from the original on 2024-08-17. Retrieved 2023-01-03....
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    Mayaguez. The aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, then en route to Australia, was ordered into the area.: 43  The destroyer escort USS Harold E. Holt and the guided...
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    America expansionist movement, the Pierce administration completed the Gadsden land purchase from Mexico, clashed with Great Britain in Central America...
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    steam ahead!" Drayton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Anna Gadsden and William Drayton, a prominent lawyer and U.S. Representative. He had...
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    depicting (clockwise, from upper left): Pine Tree Flag (white field), Gadsden flag (yellow field), American flag, Bunker Hill flag (blue field), Flag...
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    The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase. Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with very hot...
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    party against him. He was a Young America expansionist who signed the Gadsden Purchase of land from Mexico and led a failed attempt to acquire Cuba from...
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  • Magnolia (Bennettsville, South Carolina), a private residence Magnolia (Gadsden, South Carolina), a plantation house Canty House, also known as "The Magnolia"...
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    Smith Katie (June 17, 1984). "Names often lend special air to places". Gadsden Times. pp. B1. Retrieved May 20, 2015. "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000...
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    and comprised men from multiple counties, including St. John, Marion, Gadsden, Madison, and Sumter. Lake County was not created until 1887, but some...
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    defense, including: USS Richard B. Anderson USS Cochrane USS Kirk USS Gurke USS Rowan USS Cook USS Bausell The USS Enterprise and USS Coral Sea carrier...
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    War. In response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident when the destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy of the United States Navy engaged North Vietnamese ships...
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    took their current shape when the United States and Mexico agreed to the Gadsden Purchase. The Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan administrations sought to gain...
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    rattlesnake and the motto "Dont tread on me" [sic], reminiscent of the Gadsden flag. It was later changed to a blue canton with white stars, the "Union...
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    ships participating were USS Hanson, USS Buchanan, USS Newport News, USS Providence and USS Oklahoma City. During the raid, USS Hanson entered Haiphong...
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