11-12 OCTOBER 1776 250th ANNIVERSARY VALCOUR ISLAND (cont.) Arnold boldly hoisted sail on his flagship row galley CONGRESS and in company with three other row galleys and the 12-gun schooner ROYAL SAVAGE, charged at the enemy. His goading had the Read More
11-12 OCTOBER 1776 250th ANNIVERSARY VALCOUR ISLAND Upstate New York’s Lake George drains northward into Lake Champlain, and from there via the Richelieu River north again to the St. Lawrence. In the opposite direction, the headwaters of the south-flowing Hudson Read More
23 NOVEMBER 1846 FORT STOCKTON, SAN DIEGO On the morning of 29 July 1846, the sloop USS CYANE, 20, dropped anchor in the quiet Mexican harbor of San Diego, whose peacefulness belied the war then raging between the US and Mexico. Read More