[DOC] [TLE] The US Civil War, the First Modern War -  Aeragon [PAR] Although these recent innovations were used for military purposes during the ... 
The American Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in history. ... Before this 
time, most photographs required at least eight hours of exposure, thus being ... 
ships a few years earlier in the 19th century, particularly during the Crimean War. [DOC] [TLE] Battle of Hampton Roads - Wikipedia [PAR] The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor 
and ... Nine ships were burned, among them the screw frigate USS Merrimack. ... 
tried with armor during the Crimean War, just prior to the American Civil War, .... 
Monitor was actually completed a few days before her counterpart Virginia, but... [DOC] [TLE] Duel Between the First Ironclads - Texas Christian University [PAR] After explaining how both ships were designed and built, Davis next turns to the 
battle ... Even though the Monitor had defects and brought together some 
unproven ideas, ... The idea of an ironclad ship came about before the Civil War. 
.... the Confederacy used the hull of the scuttled USS Merrimack to outfit its first 
ironclad. [DOC] [TLE] Ironclads Q & A - WOW! [PAR] 2. How many ironclads were sunk in action? Very few. The normal fate for a ... A 
monitor in the Civil War sense was an armored, steam-propelled vessel of very 
low ... cases), mounting a few heavy guns in one or more revolving armored 
turrets. ... though these were not really outfitted as ships; the title of "the first 
ironclad" is... [DOC] [TLE] March 9, 1862 | The Monitor and Merrimac Face Off in Battle of ... [PAR] Mar 9, 2012 ... The Monitor and the Virginia were the first two ships built by the Union ... Though 
the battle between Monitor and the Merrimac had little effect on the outcome of 
the war, the ... The United States Navy and navies in Europe abandoned the ... 
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even ... Here are a few of these remarkable inventions. ... The Byzantine's 
pioneered the flamethrower 1200 years before World War One. ... hand pump 
system to squirt a flaming liquid known as Greek fire onto enemy vessels. [DOC] [TLE] Modeling Civil War Ironclads - Walter Nelson [PAR] Ships were starting to be built of metal and to plans, rather than by ... war to make 
plans from the few existing drawings made by John Porter during the .... Batteries 
of this sort were first developed by the French and used in the Crimean. War .... B. 
Besse booklet C.S. Ironclad Virginia and U.S. Ironclad Monitor published and. [DOC] [TLE] American Civil War facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Get information, facts, and pictures about American Civil War at Encyclopedia.
com. ... leading model of political democracy and one of its greatest slaveholding 
powers. ... Thus, white liberty and black slavery were constitutionally joined in the 
very .... When Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to suppress the southern rebellion
... [DOC] [TLE] USS Monitor - SNAME [PAR] ironclad ships were built and fought one another. ... The results of these findings 
are ... course of American naval construction for not only the war years but into ... 
John Ericsson had previously worked with the US Navy two decades before the 
..... Not much information is known about the performance of the USS Monitor. In. [DOC] [TLE] Uncle Sam's Web-Feet - The Claremont Institute [PAR] Mar 26, 2013 ... We also learn the Farragut may not actually have used this precise ... For the war 
as a whole, some 671 warships of all types carrying 4,610 guns fought in the 
Union navy. All but 112 of these were steamers, and 71 of them were ironclads. ... 
50 years in the U.S. Navy when the state he called home, Virginia,... [DOC] [TLE] James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut,

Question: Ships known as these were used in the Crimean War a few years before the U.S. outfitted the Monitor as one
Answer: an ironclad