Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from their base, the town of Placer, by "Colorums," fanatics. On the following day Colonel Bowers with another detachment landed on Bucas Island, adjoining this coast, and, under cover of machine-gun fire from the gunboat Sacramento, burned a town held by 600 Colorums. General Wood's yacht Apo was proceeding to the same region with reinforcements; for the Colorums in repeated attacks had killed some score of the constabulary - although the fanatics themselves lost about four times that number...
...beginning of the War he was commissioned an ensign in the Massachusetts Naval Militia. During the first few months after the United States entered the War he was on the U. S. S. Nebraska; then he was transferred in succession to the Kwaswind, a converted yacht which cruised along the coast and in the West Indies...
...part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza when she married King Charles II in 1662; in 1684 British abandoned it to the Moors on account of the expense it involved; in 1905 Kaiser Wilhelm II paid a visit to the port of Tangier on board the Imperial Yacht Hohensollern, remained six hours and said enough to provoke an international crisis; 1906 Conference of Algeciras settled the whole Moroccan question and placed Tangier under temporary international control; 1911 Germany sent the warship Panther to Agadir and another international crisis was occasioned; 1912 France and Spain came to an agreement...
...story said that when the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern was lying off the Scandinavian coast the Kaiser insulted von Hahnke who struck him in the face and later had to kill himself...
Calvin Coolidge: "In Washington, the crew of the Presidential yacht Mayflower were enrolled for membership in the Red Cross. In making receipts it developed that the name of the ship's cook was A. Cake...