Posts Tagged ‘news’
Ashley Bowen and the News of Bunker’s Hill (Boston 1775)
An interesting history-related post from Boston 1775:
Bowen seems to have known everything that happened in his home town, and on that evening he even apparently knew about the provincial army’s big move down the coast. Yet that action surprised the British commanders in Boston the next morning.
Here’s what Bowen recorded on 17 June:
This day the Merlin [a Royal Navy ship patrolling Marblehead harbor] firing on a target. This morning the King’s troops set fire to Charlestown and came ...
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The Slow Spread of Official News about Bunker Hill (Boston 1775)
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Washington reached New York on 25 June, and there opened a dispatch from Boston with a report on the fighting in Massachusetts. (Adding to the ...
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Operation Praying Mantis, 18 April 1988 (Naval History Blog)
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On 14 April 1988, watchstanders aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) sighted three mines floating approximately half of a mile from the ship. Twenty minutes after the first sighting, as Samuel B. Roberts was backing clear of the minefield, she struck a submerged mine. The explosive device tore a 21-foot hole in the hull, causing extensive fires and flooding. Ten Sailors were injured in the attack. Only the heroic efforts of the ship’s crew, working feverishly for seven straight hours, saved the vessel from sinking. Four days later, forces of the Joint Task Force Middle East (JTFME) executed the ...
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First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Launched at Newport News, Virginia – 24 September 1960 (Naval History Blog)
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Enterprise Launching
The Big “E”
By Captain Vincent P. de Poix, U. S. Navy, published in the June 1962 issue of Proceedings magazine:
From an operational standpoint, the ability of Enterprise to accelerate and decelerate merits first mention. In both cases our capability exceeds any conventional aircraft carrier. This capability is of tremendous benefit when carrying out our primary function of air operations in that we can turn into the wind at a later time with assurance that we can produce the requisite 35 knots of wind over the deck for launching or recovering aircraft.
During periods of light wind ...
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NHHC Underwater Archaeology Branch and MDSU2 Survey SB2C Helldiver Wreck (Naval History Blog)
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Underwater Archaeology and STEM Programming (Naval History Blog)
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U.S. News Gets Around to the American Revolution (Boston 1775)
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That timely magazine hit the market this month, and it looks like a solid introduction to the topic built from recent books and interviews with recognized experts. The articles are grouped under four themes:
- Turning Points
- Diplomacy & Discord
- In the Trenches
- Myths & Legends
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H.L. Hunley Fully Visible for the First Time (Naval History Blog)
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Hey Look! We made the news! (The History Blog)
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Inforum did a follow-up article on the vicissitudes of Orlando Ferguson’s Square and Stationary Earth map and our supersweet comments thread gets a mention as the place where Jeff and Jeannie, each owners of a copy of Ferguson’s map bringing the known total up to four, first found out about each other.
One map owner is Jeff Speaect of Pierre, S.D. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Speaect, a stamp collector, found the map.
Speaect grew up in Oral, S.D., just outside of Hot Springs where the map published by Orlando Ferguson in 1893 originated.
“I found (the map) in an ...
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Black Hills and Sioux land compensation still in the news (Native America, Discovered and Conquered)
An interesting history-related post from Native America, Discovered and Conquered:
A Rapid City S.D. newspaper reports that on this year’s anniversary of “Victory Day,” as Lakota people call the defeat of Lt. Col. George Custer, the Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council was meeting at Fort Laramie National Historic Site with the aim to determine what might yet be retrieved from the old promises about the Black Hills.
Two treaties were negotiated at Fort Laramie between the U.S. government and Plains Indian tribes. The treaty of 1851 attempted to secure safe passage for non-Indian migrants on the Oregon and California trails and settle traditional territorial claims of the tribes.
The treaty of ...
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Wilkes Exploring Expedition (Naval History Blog)
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NavyTV – Lights, Camera – ACTION (Naval History Blog)
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USS Chester Escorts Survivors of Titanic Disaster (Naval History Blog)
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Contributors in the News (RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY)
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Pearl Harbor in the News… (History Matters: Musings of Jared Frederick)
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