Evacuation of Long Island

                                     TODAY IN NAVAL HISTORY                                               30-31 AUGUST 1776                                   EVACUATION OF LONG ISLAND Boston, the hotbed of colonial rebellion, became the British Army’s North American headquarters in the mid-1770s.  But after GEN George Washington emplaced cannon in the Dorchester Heights overlooking that Read More

SAN DIEGO Lost

                                                   19 JULY 1918                                                SAN DIEGO LOST Almost as our ten Pennsylvania and Tennessee-class armored cruisers entered service at the turn of the 20th century they were rendered obsolete by advances in technology and dreadnaught design.  By the entry of the US Read More