This Day In History, August 13th, 2021 - "Naval Disaster"

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English - August 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.31 MB
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It was just 242 years ago today, August 13, 1779, when an American fleet of 19 warships, along with 25 support ships and a compliment of 1,000 Colonial Marines, were soundly defeated by a British force in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Up until the attack on Pearl Harbor, and then perhaps the Battle of Savo Island during WWII, this was without a doubt the largest, lopsided defeat the U.S. Navy had ever suffered. As an American, it pains me to write about such a loss, but we must remember that America did not always win so easily, and that many of...

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