All posts tagged "British Navy"
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6.6KConnecticutSamuel Smedley, Fairfield’s Boy Commander of the Connecticut Navy
Samuel Smedley captured a dozen British vessels during the American Revolution, but the biggest obstacle to greater glory was the stinginess of...
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9.3KReligion and Social MovementsA Newport Quaker and The French Pirates – The John Hull Story
Capt. John Hull made frequent trips between America and England as early as the 1680s. He ran a profitable line of ships...
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11.2K1ConnecticutJohn Ledyard, Connecticut Yankee, Lands in Tahiti, 1777
John Ledyard was the Connecticut-born son of a wealthy sea captain. But he was such a ne’er-do-well the family cut him out...
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