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emergence of the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, which threw Washington into a panic and made naval support operations on the James River seem problematic...
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    command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack)...
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    306 and CSS Atlanta, USS Atlanta. Navy Heritage Archived April 7, 2010, at the Library of Congress Web Archives. In both events, as with the CSS Virginia...
    300 KB (34,307 words) - 16:19, 21 July 2024
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    River at Demopolis around this same time. These included the CSS Nashville, CSS Morgan, CSS Baltic, the Southern Republic, Black Diamond, Admiral, Clipper...
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    Union wooden frigates were sunk and destroyed by the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. However, the power implied by the ship of the line would find its...
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    an order was placed with the US to buy the French-built ironclad warship CSS Stonewall, which had been built for the Confederate States Navy during the...
    76 KB (8,293 words) - 16:27, 31 May 2024
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    world. Some notable operations include the Chadian–Libyan conflict in 1969–1972 (the first time that the Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian...
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    73% der Versicherten "sehr zufrieden". Bei grossen Krankenkassen wie der CSS und Helsana betrug dieser Anteil 70% beziehungsweise 63%. Groupe Mutuel erreichte...
    237 KB (20,371 words) - 12:29, 20 July 2024
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    and in tactics to be gleaned from General Lee's operations of 1862 as there is to be found in Napoleon's campaigns of 1796. — Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley...
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    Sven Beckert. The Confederate Navy ship, the CSS Alabama, was built at Birkenhead on the Mersey, and the CSS Shenandoah surrendered there (being the final...
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    maritime development work, a first-rate military port under the leadership of Napoleon I, and holds an arsenal of the French Navy. A stopping point for prestigious...
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    which is different from using black ink alone, in printing. Shades of black "CSS Color Module Level 3". 19 June 2018. Archived from the original on 29 November...
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    It was employed by the French Empire of Napoleon III during the French invasion of Mexico as a way to include France among countries with influence in...
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    Petersburg 1862: First meeting in combat of ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, during the American Civil War. 1863: First section of the London...
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    addition of iron armor, which led to ironclads. The famous battle of the CSS Virginia and USS Monitor in the American Civil War was the duel of ironclads...
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    1776, fighting a successful revolutionary war. While Britain was fighting Napoleon, the two nations fought the stalemated War of 1812. Relations were generally...
    280 KB (30,553 words) - 04:25, 19 July 2024
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    and indirectly committing an act of war against the U.S. The raiding ship CSS Alabama, built in the British port of Birkenhead, was another difficulty...
    144 KB (17,680 words) - 08:54, 20 July 2024
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    to an enclosed life in the 18th century, but in the 19th century, after Napoleon had closed many European convents, King Louis I of Bavaria in 1828 restored...
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  • built by British shipyards and outfitted for the Confederacy, especially the CSS Alabama, over vehement protests from American diplomats. After 1865 Washington...
    199 KB (25,967 words) - 14:28, 6 June 2024