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    The first USS Yorktown was a 16-gun sloop-of-war of the United States Navy. Used mostly for patrolling in the Pacific and anti-slave trade duties in African...
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  • USS Yorktown may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Yorktown (1839), a 16-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1840 (sunk in 1850)...
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    USS Dale (later Oriole) was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy commissioned on 11 December 1839. Dale was involved in the Mexican–American War,...
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    2 November 1842, 3 killed USS Constellation (1854) USS Cyane (1837) USS Dale (1839) USS Decatur (1839) USS Eagle (1812) USS Epervier (1814), lost in July...
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    USS York County (LST-1175) USS Yorktown (1839, PG-1, CV-5, CV-10, DDG-48/CG-48) USS Yosemite (1892, 1894, CM-2, AD-19) USS Young (DD-312, DD-580) USS Young...
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    Revolutionary War. It directly led to the Franco-American victory at the siege of Yorktown and helped secure the independence of the United States. After this action...
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    fourteen-year-old boy nearly 50 years earlier, Stirling had lived aboard the first USS Dale (1839) when the old sloop-of-war, her masts removed and at the end of her...
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    slaves. During the Mexican-American War he commanded a sloop-of-war named Yorktown along the African coast, to disrupt the slave trade. His commands included...
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    a midshipman in the United States Navy from 1831 to 1839, sailing on the USS John Adams and USS Constitution in the Mediterranean Sea as well as training...
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  • ninth currently under construction: USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115) – U.S. Navy training facility and simulator (2005–2011) USS Enterprise (disambiguation) – includes...
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    hulk of USS Merrimack; participant in Battle of Hampton Roads against USS Monitor USS Texas – First U.S. naval battleship to be commissioned. USS Raleigh...
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    British general Cornwallis was besieged by a Franco-American force in Yorktown in September and October 1781. Cornwallis was forced to surrender in October...
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    Enterprise. His two years in the Pacific were served aboard the schooner Yorktown. He had shore duty assignments at the Naval Observatory in Washington,...
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    La Amistad (category 1839 in the United States)
    schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European...
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    while deployed with the African Squadron include USS Yorktown, USS Constellation, and the second USS Constellation, which captured Cora on 26 September...
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    bombers had been shot down without a single hit, Dauntlesses from USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) found four Japanese carriers, in the vulnerable...
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    79192 – New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. 79593 – USS Yorktown/Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina...
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    towards Clinton in New York, then headed south to Virginia. The siege of Yorktown in October 1781 was a decisive victory by the combined forces of the Continental...
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    Griffith 18 Jun: Orion 21 Jul: Von der Tann 25 Jul: HMS Plumper 6 Sep: USS Yorktown 24 Sep: HMS Thetis 13 Oct: Grecian 1 Nov: Peterhoff 11 Nov: America 19...
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    children, the last survivors, were picked up by the U.S. Navy gunship Yorktown on 18 July 1917. Throughout Mexico's occupation of Clipperton, France insisted...
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    USS Terry (DD-513), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commander Edward A. Terry (1839–1882). Terry...
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  • Ford Battle of Guilford Court House Battle of Groton Heights Siege of Yorktown 1776 – 1794 Cherokee–American wars October 17, 1793 Battle of Hightower...
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    by Dutch shore batteries, but escapes. 3–4 May Invasion of Tulagi – USS Yorktown and her battlegroup engage the Japanese invasion fleet, sinking several...
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    George Washington and the French Army under Rochambeau from their march on Yorktown, Virginia. The main defensive fort for New London was Fort Griswold, located...
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    waterfront was improved by the Gowanus Canal and the canalized Newtown Creek. USS Monitor was the most famous product of the large and growing shipbuilding...
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    a recent immigrant from Hamburg who had been wounded at the Battle of Yorktown. Fernando had six siblings: four brothers and two sisters. His brother...
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    was sold in Barbados in 1811. Pons, American-built barque captured by USS Yorktown on 1 December 1845 with 850–900 slaves. Progresso, a Brazilian brigantine...
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  • Battle of New Orleans 25 April – 1 May Union forces capture city Battle of Yorktown 5 April – 4 May Union troops win skirmish Second French intervention in...
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    Francisco; dynamite-gun cruiser Vesuvius; dispatch vessel Dolphin; gunboats Yorktown, Concord, Bennington and Petrel; and torpedo boat Cushing. These constituted...
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    Corpus Christi, Texas (category 1839 establishments in North America)
    1–8) Incarnate Word Academy (K–12) Annapolis Christian Academy (K–12) Yorktown Christian Academy (K–12) Libraries in the city include: Dr. Clotilde P...
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