A fleet of ships that could be switched between combat roles based on demand promised to make for a more dynamic Navy. If the changing geopolitical climate meant they needed more electronic reconnaissance vessels and fewer minesweepers, the Navy wouldn’t have to wait the better part of a deca...
Though improvements had begun at Pearl Harbor, the bulk of the Navy's facilities remained in Honolulu through the first decade of the 20th century. As other governmental agencies began encroaching on the Navy's property in Honolulu, the decision was made to begin shifting activities to Pearl Har...
In 1803 the United States Navy was two years into its campaign against the Barbary Pirates who sailed from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Morocco. For years the United States like other nations had paid tribute to the rulers of these states for free passage of its ships and hefty ransoms to ...
Florida Jury Says CNN Defamed Navy Veteran in Story… Police Identify Man Accused of Fatally Beating 2… SpaceX Launch Accident Likely Caused by Fire That Sent… Henry Flagler arrived aboard the first train to Key West, southernmost point of the U.S., in 1912, marking completion of his Flor...
Spurred on by his family, 40 Republican members of Congress signed a letter in March calling for the Navy to free him, and soon after, US President Trump had him released from prison to house arrest. In July, 2019, he was acquitted of all charges. Gallagher was one of three military ...
the 1800s was marked by increased westward expansion, industrialization, and the influx of millions of immigrants. The United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack (1941) on Pearl Harbor and emerged after the war as a world power. Washington, DC, is the capital and New York...
United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, but in 1967, it was granted home rule on the road to...
Between 1776 and 1781, 5,000 Black men will serve in the Continental Army and Navy. There are an estimated 500,000 Blacks in the colonies when the Revolution begins.[42] A new constitution in Delaware prohibits the future importation of slaves. The Society of Friends (Quakers) declares that...
The Royal Swedish Navy A 19 submarine HMS Gotland left Sweden in late May, 2005 abroad a heavy-lift barge to begin a 12-month period on lease to the US Navy (USN) for adversary training. The 1,490-ton displacement submarine, equipped with a Stirling air-independent propulsion system, will...
Florida Jury Says CNN Defamed Navy Veteran in Story… Henry Flagler arrived aboard the first train to Key West, southernmost point of the U.S., in 1912, marking completion of his Florida East Coast Railway linking the East Coast from north to south. In his path, he left grand hotels –...