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    The action off Charles Island was a naval battle fought during the War of 1812 in the summer of 1813 off Charles Island in the Galapagos. An American...
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    Washington. Biography portal Action off Charles Island Nuku Hiva Campaign Notes Lieutenant Gamble's own memoirs recalled the actions on 12 July 1813, but Captain...
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    action off James Island, Downes was in command of the sloop Georgiana during the capture of three British whalers. He also participated in the action...
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  • 1813 Action off James Island 28 May 1813 Second Battle of Sackett's Harbor 28–29 May 1813 Battle of Boston Harbor 1 June 1813 Action off Charles Island 14...
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    The action off James Island was a naval engagement of the War of 1812. In May 1813 an American frigate captured three British whalers off James Island in...
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    regrouping in the Marquesas Islands, which he claimed in the name of the United States and renamed them the Madison Islands, in honor of then-President...
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    six months, they would drive the pirates off the sea, and rout them from their hiding places in among the islands. He was executive officer aboard the Experiment...
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    able to break off and head for La Fière to join the rest of their battalion. For his self-sacrificial actions, Private First Class Charles DeGlopper posthumously...
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  • The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman...
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    entrance as Rogers' ships returned. Vane took ships off the Bahamas in July, working with Charles Yeats, the original captain of the Katherine. A brigantine...
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    capture of the Spanish frigate Pomona off Havana, Cuba in 1806, and then in 1807 was in command at capture of the island of Curaçao. He was made governor of...
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  • Plane (film) (category 2023 action thriller films)
    Plane is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet from a screenplay by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis. The film stars Gerard...
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    most populated islands in the chain. The Galápagos are famous for their large number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin in the 1830s...
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  • Islands. New Zealander was reported to be there on 22 April 1813. USS Essex captured New Zealander c.13 July 1813 in the Galápagos in the action off Charles...
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    experimental new town of Poundbury. An environmentalist, Charles supported organic farming and action to prevent climate change during his time as the manager...
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  • marina controlled by Arius, Matrix and Cindy land the plane off the coast of Arius' island hideout. Matrix instructs Cindy to contact General Kirby and...
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    people travel west to visit this island. The waters off the island are a popular place for recreational sea fishing. The island was historically inhabited by...
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    to Retire Vortex After 33 Seasons". Kings Island. Retrieved September 27, 2019. "Action Theater". Kings Island Central. Archived from the original on November...
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    attack on the British, but he succeeded only in recapturing the island fort of Diamond Rock off Martinique. On 7 June he learned that Nelson had reached Antigua...
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    15972 Shooters Island is a 43-acre (17 ha) uninhabited island at the southern end of Newark Bay, off the North Shore of Staten Island in New York City...
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  • the thirty-six gun frigate USS Essex, captured Charlton in the action off Charles Island in mid-July 1813. Porter and his squadron of captured British...
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    encompassed several locations, both on the mainland and in the off-shore Salvation Islands. Île Royale was the reception centre for the general population...
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  • and inventory menus are replaced by a pop-up action menu and inventory chest. The Curse of Monkey Island was the twelfth and final LucasArts game to use...
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    oversaw its relocation to Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island. Flusser served on blockade duty off the coast of Georgia in late 1861, before being appointed...
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  • characters, and action. The novel was originally serialised from 1881 to 1882 in the children's magazine Young Folks under the title Treasure Island or the Mutiny...
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    and of Charles Wilkes, published in 1845. In both cases, the maps are unclear in the vicinity of the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island and the Gulf...
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    portion of this island lies within Virginia, "Smith Island, Virginia" refers to a separate but identically named barrier island off Cape Charles. By the 2010s...
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    Samar (redirect from Samar (island))
    as typifying the Philippine War." The waters off the east side of the island also hosted the Battle off Samar on October 25, 1944, wherein a small, unarmored...
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    San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's...
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    island. Goos labelled the island "Mony" or "Moni", the meaning of which is unclear. English navigator William Dampier, aboard the privateer Charles Swan's...
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