1814 - A squadron from the schooner USS Carolina attacks and raids the base of the pirate Jean Lafitte, at Barataria, La., capturing six schooners and other small craft while the pirates flee the ...

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Civil War hero and celebrated Knoxville native Admiral David Farragut has been bestowed with a new honor more than 150 years after his death as the U.S. military purges the names of Confederate ...

Sherwood, Glen V., "A Labor of Love: The Life and Art of Vinnie Ream," Unpublished manuscript, 1990. Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., A ...

A ship’s bell that once rang out from the USS Hartford, the flagship of famous Civil War Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, sits in a lonely corner of Hartford’s Constitution Plaza office park, gathering ...

Today in U.S. 1854 - Cdr. David G. Farragut takes possession of Mare Island, the first U.S. Navy Yard on the Pacific. 1922 - Cdr. Halsey Powell in USS Edsall became the senior officer directing the ...

A ship’s bell that once rang out from the USS Hartford, flagship of famous Civil War Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, will likely soon move from a lonely corner of Hartford’s Constitution Plaza office ...