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Battle of Hill 881 The Battle of Hill 881 was a battle during the Vietnam War between the People ' s Army of Vietnam ( PAVN , or in US sources " North Vietnamese Army " or NVA ) and United States Marines . Conducted in the I Corps Tactical Zone it became known as " the Hill Fights " , involving Hill 881 North ( ) , Hill 881 South ( ) , and Hill 861 ( ) . The ' hill ' designation in this case actually refers to a " hill mass " or a collection of ridges and saddles , the numbers to the elevation the highest point of the hill masses in meters . The first contact made with the NVA occurred on Hill 861 when five US Marine forward observers were ambushed in the bamboo , four of whom were killed by gunfire . After this contact , two companies of Marines advanced on Hill 861 , encountering heavy fire from entrenched NVA positions . Constant mortar barrages on potential landing zones prevented evacuation of wounded and fog cut off most air support . Separated , burdened with wounded and dead ( it is US Marine Corps tradition never to leave their dead behind ) , both companies set up hedgehog positions until relieved by other Marine companies . Even after skinning the hill with napalm , white phosphorus , 500 - pound bombs and Huey ( helicopter ) runs , NVA snipers and machine guns would cut down advancing Marines . Entrenched NVA troops would wait until the Marines were 20 – 30 yards from their positions , firing on them , bombarding them with 82mm mortars hidden on the reverse sides of ridges and then pursuing them through the burnt trees . After a constant day and night bombardment , Marine forces managed to take Hill 861 , the closest hill mass to Khe Sanh . Dug into the hill they found 400 foxholes and 25 bunkers . The bunkers were often fortified with up to 6 ft of earth and logs , making them all but impervious to the 250 - and 500 - pound bombs of Marine aircraft . Having taken Hill 861 , the Marine forces advanced against Hill 881 South covered , as they found later , with 10 times as many foxholes and bunkers than 861 . Despite the discovery of the well entrenched bunkers on Hill 861 ; Marine aircraft used 500 - pound bombs in the bombardment of Hill 881 South for fear of hitting themselves with shrapnel when they flew low over their targets to avoid monsoon cloud . With Hill 881 South insufficiently bombarded , Marine infantry found the going even harder than the previous hill , often taking fire from bunkers they had passed , effectively being surrounded on hills and ridges that their own artillery and airplanes had cleared of cover . After the Marines had suffered heavy losses on Hill 881 South , a new commander ordered the Marine aircraft to break with tradition and use 750 - , 1000 - and 2000 - pound bombs on the heavily - entrenched NVA forces . With the hills properly bombarded , American forces managed to take Hill 881 North and South in the same day . After beating off a fierce NVA counterattack on Hill 881 North , the Marines could finally claim victory in what had become the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War so far .
USS Weiss ( DE - 378 ) The first USS Weiss ( DE - 378 ) , was " John C . Butler " - class destroyer escort proposed for construction during World War II but never completed . " Weiss " was named after United States Marine Corps sergeant Carl Walter Weiss , who was killed in action during a battle on 1 November 1942 with Japan ese forces near the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal , when he charged an enemy machine gun position and destroyed it with a hand grenade . For " his great personal valor , aggressiveness and fine spirit of self sacrifice , " Sergeant Weiss was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously . " Weiss " was cancelled on 5 June 1944 before completion , and her materials were scrapped . The name " Weiss " was reassigned to a " Rudderow " - class destroyer escort , USS " Weiss " ( DE - 719 ) , which was converted during construction into the " Crosley " - class fast transport USS " Weiss " ( APD - 135 ) .
Scraesdon Fort Scraesdon Fort , near the village of Antony , is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and , in particular , Plymouth docks from enemy naval attack . They were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston ' s premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases in the south of England . Scraesdon Fort was designed in 1859 at a cost of £137 , 000 . It is constructed in the Land Front , polygonal , near octagon al format . It has a dry ditch , and was designed to have twenty seven 7 - inch breech loading guns on the ramparts , although only eight were ever mounted . The upper level is 254 ft above mean sea level ( AMSL ) and the lower level is 173 feet AMSL . The fort was used by the MOD as a training barracks , but it is currently empty , derelict and overgrown . It was used to train Royal Navy Artificer Apprentices from HMS Fisgard and HMS Raleigh ; it is occasionally used now by Royal Marine Commandos recruits as part of their final exercise , as well as being used by local Territorial Army units . The fort is also used for airsoft events on an ad hoc basis . A military railway connected the fort with the River Lynher at Wacker Quay , near St . Germans . It also provided a link to the main fort on the Rame peninsula at Fort Tregantle . The railway ran underneath the metal bridge ( as seen in the picture on the right ) and down a gradient , then went underneath the current A374 road , and alongside Wacker Quay . The locomotive shed was extant on the quayside until the late 2000s , when it was removed by Cornwall CC , who had been using it as a highways depot . and other remnants of the railway can also be seen here . There was also an extensive marshalling area next to the east wall in the lower picture . The railway was used from 1893 to 1903 .
Yelcho ( 1906 ) The cutter boat Yelcho was built in 1906 by the Scottish firm G . Brown and Co . of Greenock , on the River Clyde for towage and cargo service of the Chilean " Sociedad Ganadera e Industrial Yelcho y Palena de Puerto Montt " . 1908 she was sold to the Chilean Navy and ordered to Punta Arenas as a tug and for periodic maintenance and supply of the lighthouses of the zone . The Rescue of the Imperial Trans - Antarctic Expedition . After the dramatic Voyage of the " James Caird " , Shackleton had attempted and failed three times to rescue the crew left on Elephant Island : the ships " Southern Sky " ( Loaned by the English Whaling Co . , 23 – 31 May 1916 ) , " Instituto de Pesca N°1 " ( loaned by the Government of Uruguay , 0 – 16 June 1916 ) and " Emma " ( a sealer , funded by the British Club . Punta Arenas , 12 July – 8 August 1916 ) all failed to reach Elephant Island . In July 1916 , the " Yelcho " was authorised by the president of Chile , Juan Luis Sanfuentes , to escort and tow the " Emma " to a point south of Cape Horn . but this third attempt was also unsuccessful . At dawn on the 7th of August the " Yelcho " under the command of Captain Luis Pardo was ordered to Port Stanley in order to tug the " Emma " and the British explorers back to Punta Arenas to make a fourth attempt . The Chilean government offered the " Yelcho " although she was totally unsuited for operations in Antarctic waters . With no radio , no proper heating system , no electric lighting and no double hull the small ship had to cross the of the Drake ' s Passage in Antarctic winter . On the 25th of August 1916 at 00 : 15 she sailed bound for Elephant Island with 22 men under command of Pardo , carrying Shackleton , Frank Worsley and Tom Crean . After making it safely through the complex tides and channels of the west side of the Tierra del Fuego , " Yelcho " headed out into the Beagle Channel . On the 27th at 11 : 15 she arrived at Picton Island , where she bunkered 300 sacks of coal ( a total of 72 tons were in the ship ) from the " Puerto Banner " Naval Station . The process was completed within only 12 hours and on 28 August at 3 : 30 she weighed anchor and left for Elephant Island . south of Cape Horn the lookout spotted the first iceberg s At 11 : 40 am on the 30th of August the fog lifted , the camp on Elephant Island was spotted , and " Yelcho " immediately entered the bay . Within an hour , in two trips of a small boat , all the Elephant Island party were safely aboard the " Yelcho " , which sailed for Punta Arenas . The 23 crew of the " Yelcho " that fateful day was : Aftermath . After the successful rescue mission of 1916 the name " Yelcho " has been given to streets and ships of Chile , particularly to Chile ' s southernmost coastal Puerto Williams , and it is there that the prow of the " Yelcho " has been preserved and is prominently displayed as a tribute to Captain Pardo ' s ship , his crew . In 1945 the ship was decommissioned and used as tender in the Petty officer School of the Chilean Navy . On 27 January 1958 was retired by decree 190 and 1962 sold to ASMAR under terms of Law 14 . 564 ( 5 May 1954 ) for 300 . 000 CLP .
USS Karibou ( SP - 200 ) USS " Karibou " ( SP - 200 ) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 . " Karibou " was built as the civilian motorboat " Lebanon " in either 1911 or 1913 by the Salisbury Marine Construction Company at Salibsury , Maryland . She later was renamed " Karibou " . The U . S . Navy chartered " Karibou " from her owner , Harwood Spencer of Asheville , North Carolina , on 17 May 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel . She was commissioned as USS " Karibou " ( SP - 200 ) on 18 May 1917 with Boatswain Albert Miller , USNRF , in command . Assigned to the 5th Naval District at Norfolk , Virginia , " Karibou " served as an armed guard patrol craft in the harbors of Norfolk and Newport News , Virginia . She acted as a mail and dispatch boat along the lower reaches of the James River and the York River and patrolled Atlantic coastal waters from Norfolk to Virginia Beach , Virginia . " Karibou " was decommissioned on 5 February 1919 , and was returned to her former owner the same day .
Jan Šverma Jan Šverma ( March 23 , 1901 , Mnichovo Hradiště , Bohemia – November 10 , 1944 ) was a Czechoslovak political activist , considered a national hero during the communist regime . He contributed to " Rudé právo " , the official publication of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSČ ) and was its editor - in - chief from 1936 to 1938 . From 1929 he was a member of the KSČ Central Committee and Politburo . Šverma spent time in exile in Moscow and Paris during the existence of the Nazi - backed Slovak State and became a close collaborator of Klement Gottwald , who would become the first Communist leader of Czechoslovakia . Šverma assumed the political leadership of Czechoslovak military units formed in the Soviet Union during the Nazi invasion of the USSR . He died in the Slovak mountains while leading an insurrection of Slovak communists against the Slovak State . A bridge at the Prague location of the former Franz Joseph Bridge was named after him in 1951 .
MV Cape Pine MV " Cape Pine is a charter boat operated by the Maritime Heritage Society of Vancouver . She began life as the USS " SC - 715 , a SC - 497 - class submarine chaser of the United States Navy . She was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard and served under the name USCGC " Air Killdeer " ( WAVR 433 ) . Finally sold into mercantile service , as the Cape Pine , she worked as a high - endurance fish packer in the fisheries of the Canadian coast , and was then sold to the Maritime Heritage Society of Vancouver . Service history . Construction . " SC - 715 " was laid down at the Fisher Boat Works in Detroit , Michigan on 14 May 1942 , launched on 23 October 1942 and commissioned into the navy on 4 December 1942 . US Navy service during WWII . " SC - 715 " served in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II . After the war she was decommissioned at Seattle . Post - war US Coast Guard service . Transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 9 January 1946 , " SC - 715 " was renamed USCGC " Air Killdeer " . In this capacity she was used in offshore rescue duties . She was one of 70 such vessels transferred to the coastguard to cope with the problem of large numbers of aviation accidents as troops and personnel were returned to the United States after the war , in Operation Magic Carpet . The shortage of experienced pilots as enlisted men were discharged caused the number of accidents to rise . Manpower shortages also affected the Coastguard , which at times struggled to crew the rescue vessels . After two years " Air Killdeer " was sold to a Canadian fishing company in British Columbia , on 19 January 1948 . Fish factory boat . She was registered as " Cape Pine " on 14 May 1951 . Her new owners re - powered and modified the former submarine chaser to convert her to a high - endurance fish packer in support of the salmon and herring fisheries on the west coast of Canada . Charter boat . " Cape Pine " is still afloat , having been sold to the Maritime Heritage Society in Vancouver , and is in operation as a private pleasure boat and charter boat out of Pender Harbour , British Columbia , Canada .
Musso war The Musso war was an armed conflict between the federation of the Three Leagues ( " Drei Bünde " ) in the Grisons , an associate state of the Old Swiss Confederacy , and the Duchy of Milan early in the 16th century . The Milanese reeve of Como , Gian Giacomo Medici , who resided on castle Musso , had been raiding the valley of Chiavenna since 1521 , and in 1526 he even occupied the Valtellina , both subject territories of the Three Leagues . The Three Leagues managed to drive the Milanese forces back . In 1531 , when another Milanese attack on the Valtellina occurred , the Three Leagues called the Old Swiss Confederacy for help , calling in duties of a defence alliance concluded earlier . The confederacy was at that time already entrapped in religious conflicts following the Reformation , and only the Protestant cantons supported the Three Leagues . In a peace treaty concluded the next year , Chiavenna and the Valtellina were granted to the Three Leagues ; only three communes at the north end of Lake Como , the " tre pievi " , came under the supervision of Milan . The refusal of the Catholic cantons to support the Three Leagues in these skirmishes was taken by the Swiss canton of Zürich as the reason to start the second war of Kappel . The Catholic cantons would emerge victorious from that war and even gain the majority in the confederacy ' s federal assembly , the " Tagsatzung " , with far - reaching consequences for the confederacy .
Helocast Helocasting is an airborne technique used by small unit , special operations forces to insert into a military area of operations . The small unit is flown , by helicopter , to a maritime insertion point . Once there , the aircraft assumes an altitude just above the water ' s surface and an airspeed of or less . Team members then exit the aircraft and enter the water . In some cases , depending upon the mission parameters and the aircraft used , personnel may be inserted along with an inflatable boat for over - the - horizon operations . When a fully inflated boat is transported and inserted with personnel , this type of operation is known as a " hard duck " . In cases where a fully inflated boat cannot be accommodated by the aircraft , it can be partially deflated for transit and inflated at the insertion point by means of a foot pump . This type of operation is known as a " soft duck " . If inflation to any degree is not feasible , a " rolled duck " may be performed . Once team members are in the water , they may swim to the objective or , in the case of a " hard duck " , " soft duck " , or " rolled duck " , conduct an over - the - horizon transit to the objective , via inflatable boat .
Tregantle Fort Tregantle Fort in south east Cornwall is one of several forts surrounding Plymouth that were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston ' s premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases on the Channel coast . History . Tregantle Fort was completed in 1865 with barracks accommodation for 1 , 000 men and provision for 35 large guns . In the event , far smaller establishments have been based there , with only six gunners in 1882 . In 1893 the guns consisted of five RBL 7 inch Armstrong gun s and nineteen RML 64 - pounders , together with a number of SBBL 32 - pounders being tested . Early in the 1900s it became an infantry battalion headquarters with 14 officers and 423 other ranks , and from 1903 was used for rifle training . Tregantle is infamous within the armed forces because many of the rifle ranges located there slope steeply down towards the sea . These ranges are still in use , primarily by personnel located at HMS " Raleigh " Tregantle was vacated after World War I until 1938 , when it was used as the Territorial Army Passive Air Defence School . During World War II it was used first as the Army Gas School and from 1942 as US Army accommodation . Since 1945 it has been in use by the British Army , It is currently part of the Defence Estate . Tregantle Fort is still used for Royal Marine training purposes . It is also used by specialist Royal Naval EW teams ( FEWSG ) for the monitoring of ship ' s communications in the area . FEWSG operate specialist coded transmission scenarios from Tregantle Fort and surrounding areas for Naval warships to decode at sea as part of an ongoing training schedule . Tregantle Down high - angle battery . A few hundred yards southeast of Tregantle Fort , along the north side of the road , there was constructed in the 1890s a battery of four 9 - inch muzzle - loading guns on " high - angle " mountings . These were intended to fire shells along a high curving trajectory to more easily penetrate the decks of ships at sea to the south . Although the guns and mountings are long gone and the site is filled in , the area is clearly recognisable in aerial photographs .
Henry Joel Scudder Henry Joel Scudder ( September 18 , 1825 — February 10 , 1886 ) was a United States Representative from New York . Biography . Born in Northport , he attended the district school and Huntington Academy . He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford , Connecticut in 1846 . He studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1848 and practiced in New York City . In 1854 he founded a law firm , which is now known as Carter Ledyard & Milburn . He was commissioned captain in the Thirty - seventh Regiment of the New York National Guard in 1862 and served throughout the Civil War . Scudder was elected as a Republican to the Forty - third Congress , holding office from March 4 , 1873 to March 3 , 1875 . He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874 and was a trustee of Trinity College for over twenty years . He resumed the practice of law in New York City , where he died in 1886 ; interment was in the family cemetery at Northport . Scudder ' s nephew , Townsend Scudder , was a judge and a U . S . Representative from New York .
Battle of Yavi The Battle of Yavi ( also called " the Surprise at Yavi " ) took place on November 15 , 1816 , and was one of the military battles to obtain Argentina ' s independence from Spain . The Army of the North was defeated at the battle . As a result the northern border of the Argentine territory collapsed and the provinces of Salta and Jujuy were invaded by the Spaniards . The government in Buenos Aires decided then to continue the fight for independence through the Pacific flank ( present - day Chile ) , under the command of General San Martín , while Salta ' s " caudillo " Martin Miguel de Guemes led a guerrilla war to keep at bay the royalist army in the northern provinces . This campaign is retrospectively known as " La Guerra Gaucha " ( " The Gaucho War " ) after a 1905 novel by Leopoldo Lugones . The royalist officers opposing him were Pedro Antonio de Olañeta , Juan Guillermo de Marquieguy , and Field Marshal José Álvarez de La Serna e Hinojosa . The independentist troops at Yavi were commanded by Juan José Feliciano Alejo Fernández Campero , popularly known as Marquis of Yavi , as commander of the eastern flank of General Güemes ' army . Fernández Campero was a Spaniard landowner who supported the revolution .
HMS Thisbe ( 1783 ) HMS " Thisbe " was a 28 - gun " Enterprise " - class sixth - rate frigate of the Royal Navy . " Thisbe " first was commissioned in December 1787 under the command of Captain George Robinson . Because " Thisbe " served in the navy ' s Egyptian campaign ( 8 March to 2 September 1801 ) , her officers and crew qualified for the clasp " Egypt " to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants .
USS Cape May ( ID - 3520 ) USS " Cape May " ( ID - 3520 ) was a United States Navy cargo ship and troop transport in commission from 1918 to 1919 . " Cape May " was built in 1918 at Sparrows Point , Maryland , by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company as the cargo ship SS " War Saturn " for the United States Shipping Board ; she was renamed SS " Cape May " while under construction . Upon her completion , the Shipping Board transferred her on 24 October 1918 to the U . S . Navy for World War I service . Assigned the naval registry Identification Number ( ID . No . ) 3520 , she was commissioned as USS " Cape May " on 25 October 1918 with Lieutenant Commander H . R . O . Johnston , USNRF , in command . " Cape May " cleared Baltimore , Maryland , on 8 November 1918 laden with general cargo for the American Expeditionary Force in France . World War I ended during her voyage , on 11 November 1918 . She arrived at St . Nazaire , France , on 24 November 1918 , where she loaded military supplies no longer required in Europe and embarked passengers . She departed St . Nazaire on 30 December 1918 for Newport News , Virginia , where she arrived on 15 January 1919 . She then moved to Baltimore to unload cargo there . At Baltimore , " Cape May " was converted for service as a troop transport . She then made two voyages to France to bring servicemen home to New York City . On 24 August 1919 she arrived at Norfolk , Virginia . " Cape May " was decommissioned at Norfolk on 25 August 1919 and was transferred to the United States Shipping Board the same day . " Cape May " returned to commercial service as SS " Cape May " . The Shipping Board sold her in 1920 to the Atlantic , Gulf and Pacific Steamship Corporation of Baltimore , but repossessed her in 1922 . The Shipping Board sold her in 1925 to the Matson Navigation Company , which renamed her SS " Maliko " . In 1947 , Matson sold " Maliko " to Wallen and Company of Hong Kong , which renamed her SS " Shahin " . In 1948 , she was sold to the Bharat Line , Ltd . , of Bombay , India , and renamed SS " Bharateatlia " . She was scrapped in Japan in 1953 .
Dano - Swedish War ( 1657 – 58 ) The Dano - Swedish War of 1657 – 58 was a conflict between Sweden and Denmark – Norway during the Second Northern War . In 1657 , Charles X of Sweden and his Swedish army were bogged down in Poland . Frederick III saw this as an opportunity to recover the territories lost in 1645 and attacked Sweden . The outbreak of war with Denmark provided Charles with an excuse to withdraw from the Polish campaign and move against Denmark . Sweden had won its most prestigious victory , and Denmark - Norway had suffered its most costly defeat . Denmark - Norway yielded the Danish provinces of Scania , Halland , Blekinge and the island of Bornholm and the Norwegian provinces Bohuslen and Trondhjem len ( Trøndelag and Nordmøre ) to Sweden . Halland had already been under Swedish control since the signing of the Treaty of Brömsebro in 1645 , but it now became Swedish territory permanently .