Word: brigs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commodore of a squadron including Bonhomme Richard (40 guns), frigates Alliance (36 guns) and Pallas (26 guns), and brig Vengeance (12 guns), Jones was cruising off Yorkshire's Flamborough Head when at 3 o'clock one afternoon he sighted a Baltic merchant fleet, escorted by frigate Serapis (50 guns) and sloop of war Countess of Scarborough (20 guns...
...became an ardent Christian; he died of typhus before he could return to the islands. The story of Opukahaia inspired the organization of the Sandwich Islands Mission, and in October 1819 seven New England families, singing When Shall We All Meet Again, set sail for Hawaii in the brig Thaddeus...
Despite the shortage of brown shirts, the Army of American Aristocrats (AAA) will continue midnight manoeuvres on the Flea Club lawn, Brig.-Gen. Asmond Hawskin '59 announced yesterday...
...list of those present was almost a Washington Who's Who. It included Brig. General Robert Cutler '16, Special Assistant to the President and toastmaster for the occasion; C. Douglas Dillon '31, Undersecretary of State and chairman of the Program; Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy '25; Percival F. Brundage '14, Director, Bureau of the Budget; and many others...
Admiral Roscoe F. Good, in charge of Navy forces in Japan, had another view of discipline. After reading the report on conditions at the Sasebo brig, he ordered general courts-martial for Barbuti and a second brig warden, special courts-martial for the other 14 guards...