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Why the Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was so epic
When the Civil War started, the Confederate States of America had no navy to speak of ... wreaking havoc on the Union blockade on March 8, 1862. The rebel ironclad took significant damage in ...
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Book sheds new light on naval kidnapping in Civil War | DON NOBLE
Andrew Sillen announces the contradiction in this volume — "Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White" — from the start. He declares that it would be nearly impossible to ...
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Liverpool, site of last surrender in US Civil War, grapples with its Confederate links
Irvine served in that same navy, on board the CSS ... made his fortune as a blockade-runner for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Gladstone — four times a Prime Minister of Great ...
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Book Review: Franco's Pirates: Naval Aspects of the Spanish Civil War 1936–39
notes., biblio., index. $37.95. ISBN:1636242758 Commercial Shipping and Blockade Operations during the Spanish Civil War With his newest book, Hooton, a retired defense journalist and author of a ...
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Yemen’s Houthis warn Israel of naval attacks over Gaza blockade
Yemen’s Houthi fighters have given Israel a four-day deadline to lift its blockade on food, medicine and aid into Gaza, threatening to resume “naval operations ... s war on Gaza, saying ...