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18 Oct 2018, 1:01 am
After the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Royal Navy, under the command of Vice-Admiral Samuel Graves, was instructed by the British Admiralty to suppress the burgeoning rebellion. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 12:00 pm
Navy admiral said that Iran is smuggling increasingly powerful weapons to Houthi rebel groups in Yemen in violation of international sanctions, the Times reported. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 1:01 am
Nimitz and the navy did much more than MacArthur’s army to defeat the Japanese. [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 6:47 pm
In the same publication, Sadiah Qureshi reviews Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga, a “remarkable book” that “shows that people racialised as black have been in Britain for more than two thousand years. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 1:01 am
Shulman USN, Israel’s Volunteer Admiral in 2012 [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 9:56 am
Navy for three years during the 1940s when the toxic minerals were still widely employed in the military. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 9:56 am
Navy for three years during the 1940s when the toxic minerals were still widely employed in the military. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 5:32 am
” To boot, Admiral Harris announced that the F-22 Raptor will be deployed out of northern Australia in 2017. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 5:38 am
In other news, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson told Reuters that Trump’s plan to expand the Navy’s fleet would be “remarkably easy” as long as there is sufficient funding. [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 11:07 am
But Sun Jianguo, a Chinese admiral and Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of China’s powerful Central Military Commission, warned that any freedom of navigation patrols conducted by foreign navies in the South China Sea could end “in disaster. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 12:15 pm
Navy Admiral Dennis Blair said yesterday that if China began dredging the disputed Scarborough Shoal, Beijing would risk a military conflict with the United States, one that the United States would “win because the military situation is set up that way. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 1:01 am
On one level, the book gives you the story of how Admiral Horatio Nelson led the British fleet to victory over Napoleon’s navy and thus ended any threat to England by Napoleon. [read post]
9 May 2016, 2:19 pm
The Washington Post reports that “Navy Capt. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 12:58 pm
According to Admiral Mark Ferguson, the United States Navy’s top commander in Europe, the number of Russian submarine patrols has risen 50 percent in the last year. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 1:09 pm
The Navy Times reports that “Admiral Harry Harris is proposing a muscular U.S. response to China’s island-building that may include launching aircraft and conducting military operations within 12 miles of these man-made islands, as part of an effort to stop what he called the ‘Great Wall of Sand. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 7:45 am
Earlier this week, the Democratic and GOP presidential candidates took to stage for their sixth and eighth respective debates. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 6:45 am
When Augustine died, ownership fell to George’s half-brother Lawrence who renamed the place Mount Vernon after Admiral Edward Vernon, his commanding officer in the British navy. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 1:23 pm
Admiral Harry B. [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 1:50 am
She was named Andrew Doria after the 15th-century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 1:23 pm
The Guardian lets us know that the British Foreign Office has ruled out air strikes against Islamic State targets in Libya in response to last month’s beach attack in Tunisia that left 30 British tourists dead. [read post]
