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On this date: the U.S. Navy is founded. Again. It’s complicated…
The U.S. Navy got started twice. The first time was on October 13, 1775, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution ...
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Black Revolutionary seamen
Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary War -- partly out ... was captured along with his ship's crew, and spent ...
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‘Father of American Navy’ helmed Russian ship for Catherine the Great
in 1774 and was soon appointed to the Continental Navy. During the Revolutionary War, he commanded ships off the Atlantic coast, in the Caribbean and in European seas, capturing and destroying ...
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5 Weird Revolutionary War Facts You Either Forgot or Never Learned
We’ve certainly cooked ourselves up a pretty glowing review of the Revolutionary War, and why wouldn’t ... attempt to blow ...