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Hugh W . Mercer Hugh Weedon Mercer ( November 27 , 1808 – June 9 , 1877 ) was an officer in the United States Army and then a Confederate general during the American Civil War . Biography . Hugh W . Mercer was born in Fredericksburg , Virginia , to a wealthy and well - known family . His grandfather and namesake Hugh Mercer of Pennsylvania had been a general under George Washington during the American Revolution . Mercer graduated from West Point in 1828 ( 3rd out of 33 ) , and served as a second lieutenant in the U . S . Artillery , spending much of his service time in Georgia . After an assignment as an aide to Winfield Scott , he left the army , married a woman from Savannah and settled in that city . Mercer worked as a bank cashier , and was an artillery officer in the local militia . He started building the Italianate - style Mercer House . However , construction was interrupted by the Civil War , and no Mercer ever lived there . In 1861 , he enlisted in the Confederate army , and was commissioned as the colonel of the 1st Georgia Infantry . He was promoted to brigadier general by the end of October . He served as commander of the District of Georgia . In August 1862 , he played a major role in impressing the first group of slaves and free blacks into service for the Confederacy . By November , however , he lost his authority to impress workers , and depended on Gov . Joseph E . Brown and local sheriffs to provide slaves to join the Confederate effort . At the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign , he left Savannah and took command of a brigade in the Army of Tennessee . Fighting at Dalton , Marietta , Kennesaw Mountain ( where his son was wounded ) , and the Battle of Atlanta , he became ill during the subsequent campaigning in Tennessee . Mercer was relieved of command and sent home to Savannah , serving under Lt . Gen . William J . Hardee . He commanded the 10th Battalion , Georgia Infantry , which was charged with the defense of the Savannah area . When Hardee retreated in December 1864 , Mercer left the city , returning after the fighting ended . He was briefly imprisoned on at Fort Pulaski , which he had once commanded , on Cockspur Island after the end of the war , along with other prominent Confederate leaders . After the war , he again returned to Savannah and resumed his work in banking , and moved to Baltimore in 1869 , where he worked as a commission merchant . Mercer traveled to Baden - Baden , Germany , in order to find a cure for his illness . Instead , he died there . His body was returned to Savannah and buried in Bonaventure Cemetery , owned by City of Savannah , located in Thunderbolt , Ga . One of his descendants , great - grandson Johnny Mercer , became an internationally known lyricist and composer .
USS Bluefish ( SSN - 675 ) USS " Bluefish " ( SSN - 675 ) , a " Sturgeon " - class attack submarine , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bluefish . Construction and commissioning . The contract to build " Bluefish " was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton , Connecticut , on 15 July 1966 and her keel was laid down there on 13 March 1968 . She was launched on 10 January 1970 , sponsored by Mrs . David Packard , and commissioned on 8 January 1971 with Commander Richard A . Peterson in command . Service history . " Bluefish " surfaced at the North Pole on 4 May 1975 . Decommissioning and disposal . " Bluefish " was decommissioned with Commander Richard C . West in command on 31 May 1996 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day . Her scrapping via the Nuclear - Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton , Washington , was completed on 1 November 2003 .
Denis Bryant Denis William Bryant was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the 20th century . He was born on 31 January 1918 and educated at Cardiff University . He was ordained in 1956 after an earlier career as an RAF Officer he was Rector of Esperance , Western Australia and then Archdeacon of the Goldfields before elevation to the Episcopate as the 4th Bishop of Kalgoorlie .
No . 395 Expeditionary Combat Support Wing RAAF No 395 Expeditionary Combat Support Wing ( 395 ECSW ) is a ground support wing of the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) . Part of the Combat Support Group , it is responsible for the provision of combat and base support services , including command and control of airbases and airspace , force protection , communications and logistics . Consisting of 11 sub units , it is one of the largest RAAF units and is made up of one Combat Communications Squadron , two Expeditionary Combat Support Squadrons , two Airfield Defence Squadrons and seven Combat Support Units which are based at various locations around Australia .
Michael Sleavon Michael Sleavon VC ( 1826 Magheraculmoney , County Fermanagh – 15 August 1902 , Dromard , County Sligo ) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross . Details . At the age of 31 , Sleavon was a corporal in the Corps of Royal Engineers during the Indian Mutiny . On 3 April 1858 at Jhansi , India , his actions led to the award of the Victoria Cross : Further information . He died in Dromard , County Sligo on 15 August 1902 and was buried in Bannagh Roman Catholic Churchyard , Tubrid , County Fermanagh . References . Listed in order of publication year
USS Sanderling ( AMc - 11 ) USS " Sanderling " ( AMc - 11 ) was a coastal minesweeper of the United States Navy . The ship was built in 1937 as the wooden purse seiner " New Conti di Savoia " by the Harbor Boat Works , Terminal Island , California ; was purchased for U . S . Navy use on 28 October 1940 from the New Conti di Savoia Fishing Corp . , San Pedro , California ; converted to a coastal minesweeper by the Al Larson Boat Shop , San Pedro , California ; and placed in service as " Sanderling " on 18 April 1941 . World War II West Coast patrol operations . Based at San Diego , " Sanderling " conducted local minesweeping and patrol operations in the 11th Naval District until placed out of service on 18 September 1944 . End of War deactivation . She was struck from the Navy List on 14 October 1944 , sold back to her former owner in February 1945 , and delivered to that corporation the following May .
MV Ancylus MV " Ancylus " was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch / Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier ( MAC ship ) . The group is collectively known as the " Rapana " class . MV " Ancylus " was built at Swan Hunter and completed in January , 1935 as an oil tanker for the Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch / Shell line . She was converted to a MAC ship , entering service in October , 1943 . As a MAC ship , she had no aircraft hangar , and continued to carry normal cargoes , although operating under Royal Navy control . Only her air crew and the necessary maintenance staff were naval personnel . At the end of the war , " Ancylus " was reconverted to an oil tanker , being renamed " Imbricaria " in 1952 . She served in this capacity until broken up for scrap at La Spezia in December 1954 .
André Frédéric Cournand André Frédéric Cournand ( September 24 , 1895 – February 19 , 1988 ) was a French physician and physiologist . He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W . Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization . Born in Paris , Cournand emigrated to the United States in 1930 and , in 1941 , became a naturalized citizen . For most of his career , Cournand was a professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and worked at Bellevue Hospital in New York City . Many seats of medical research have recognized his work , and he has received the Anders Retzius Silver Medal of the Swedish Society for Internal Medicine ( 1946 ) , the Lasker Award of the United States Public Health Association ( 1949 ) , the John Philipps Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians ( 1952 ) , the Gold Medal of the Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique and of the Académie Nationale de Médecine , Paris ( 1956 ) . He was elected Doctor ( honoris causa ) of the Universities of Strasbourg ( 1957 ) , Lyon ( 1958 ) , Brussels ( 1959 ) , Pisa ( 1961 ) , and D . Sc . of the University of Birmingham ( 1961 ) .
HMS Highflyer ( 1851 ) HMS " Highflyer " was a 21 - gun wooden screw frigate ( later re - designated a corvette ) of the Royal Navy . She was built on the River Thames by C J Mare and launched on 13 August 1851 . She spent twenty years in service , including action in the Crimean War and the Second Opium War , before being broken up at Portsmouth in May 1871 . Design . " Highflyer " was ordered as a small wooden frigate to a design by the Surveyor ' s Department of the Admiralty on 25 April 1847 ; she and her sister " Esk " were redesignated as corvettes in 1854 . In common with other screw corvettes of the time , she was envisaged as a steam auxiliary , intended to cruise under sail with the steam engine available for assistance . Commensurately she was provided with a full square sailing rig . Her geared two - cylinder horizontal single - expansion steam engine , provided by Maudslay , Sons & Field , developed and drove a single screw . Construction . The design was approved in November 1849 , and she was laid down in January 1850 in the Leamouth Wharf yard of C J Mare & Co . on the River Thames . She was launched on 18 August 1851 and commissioned at Woolwich on 15 March 1852 under Captain Henry James Matson . The cost of building came to £27 , 105 for the hull , £17 , 431 for the machinery and £11 , 539 for fitting out . Service history . After commissioning , the Highflyer completed fitting out on 10 April 1852 . Initially she served on the North America and West Indies Station ; her first commander , Captain Matson , died on 14 December 1852 , and she was then placed under the command of Captain Edmund Heathcote . On 1 April 1853 command passed to Captain John Moore , under whom she sailed to join the Mediterranean Fleet after taking part in the 1853 Naval Review as part of the starboard division . She was deployed in 1854 to the Black Sea during the Crimean War . After recommissioning at Portsmouth under Captain Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell on 1 August 1856 , she sailed for the China Station , where she took part in the Second Opium War . She was present at the capture of Canton in December 1857 and the Second Battle of Taku Forts on 25 June 1859 . Midshipman John Fisher , later Baron Fisher of Kilverstone , served in her during the mid - 1850s . Captain William Andrew James Heath took over command from Captain Shadwell on 2 January 1860 , still in the Far East . " Highflyer " paid off at Portsmouth on 31 May 1861 , but recommissioned again on 15 December 1864 under Captain Thomas Malcolm Sabine Pasley , for the Cape of Good Hope and East Indies Stations . She paid off for the last time on 31 August 1868 and was broken up at Portsmouth in May 1871 .
Harro Schacht Harro Schacht ( 15 December 1907 in Cuxhaven – 14 January 1943 in the South Atlantic ) was a German U - boat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross ( ) . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . He is credited with the sinking of 19 ships for a total of , including the SS " Alcoa Puritan " and one ship damaged of . Biography . Schacht began his naval career in April 1926 as an " Offiziersanwärter " ( Officer Cadet ) , receiving promotion to " Fähnrich " in April 1928 and " Oberfähnrich " in June 1930 . On 1 October 1930 he was commissioned as a " Leutnant zur See " , serving on the light cruisers and , and receiving promotion to " Oberleutnant zur See " on 1 August 1932 . Promoted to " Kapitänleutnant " on 1 April 1936 , he served in the staff of the " Oberkommando der Marine " ( OKM ) from 1937 . Promoted to " Korvettenkapitän " on 1 October 1940 , he joined the U - boat force in June 1941 , sailing under Erich Topp in as a commander - in - training . Following this , in October 1941 he was appointed commander of the newly built Type IXC submarine . On his second patrol , Schacht took " U - 507 " to the Gulf of Mexico in May 1942 , sinking 9 ships , including 4 tankers . On his next patrol , he took " U - 507 " to operate off the coast of Brazil . From 16 to 19 August 1942 , " U - 507 " sank six neutral Brazilian ships and a Swedish tanker . As a result of this ( and previous attacks ) Brazil declared war on Germany on 22 August 1942 . On the way home from this patrol , " U - 507 " , together with , and the Italian submarine took part in the rescue operations during the Laconia incident , rescuing survivors , including many Italian Prisoners of War after the Laconia was sunk on 12 September 1942 . Schacht and the entire crew of " U - 507 " were killed in the South Atlantic on 13 January 1943 when a U . S . PBY Catalina aircraft sank the U - boat with depth charges . Schacht received posthumous promotion to " Fregattenkapitän " on 1 January 1944 . Under his command " U - 507 " sank 19 merchant ships totalling 77 , 143 tons and damaged another of 6 , 561 tons .
German submarine U - 224 German submarine " U - 224 " was a Type VIIC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . Ordered on 15 August 1940 from the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel , she was laid down on 16 June 1941 as " Werk " 654 , launched on 7 May 1942 and commissioned on 20 June . " U - 224 " was attacked with depth charges and rammed by Canadian corvette west of Algiers on 13 January 1943 . 45 crew members died when the boat sank .
Frederick Cardozo Frederick Henry Cardozo MC ( 1 December 1916 – 7 October 2011 ) was a British soldier and SOE veteran . Cardozo was brought up in the Loire Valley between 1923 and 1933 ; his father , Charles Cardozo , was of Portuguese stock . In 1949 he married Simone Bigot - they had two children - one of whom , Col . Geoffrey Cardozo MBE , is the secretary of the veterans charity Veterans Aid . At the time of his birth , his father was the commander of a local army garrison , having been being wounded in 1915 , at the battle of Loos . In recognition of his work for the French resistance , Cardozo was awarded both the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre . Family background . Cardozo ' s Portuguese ancestors had become established in the London tobacco trade in the late 17th century . A century or so later his forebears , ( including his father ) , were merchants for the East India Company in Madras . Cardozo ' s mother , Simone , was the daughter of Henry Daniell , who ran a china and antiques business in Wigmore Street , London ; through his trade interests he had helped to organise the Wallace Collection and the Pierpont Morgan Collection . World War II . Cardozo joined the British Army ' s Supplementary Reserve before the outbreak of war and upon receiving his call up was posted with his regiment The South Lancashire Regiment to France . He was evacuated from Dunkirk and on his return to Britain was posted to coastline duties in anticipation of the expected German invasion . Whilst on exercises in Scotland , Cardozo was approached by Henry Thackwaite , a senior SOE officer , who recruited him for operations in France ; as a fluent French speaker he was a natural choice for such a posting . In May 1944 his team was parachuted onto Mont Mouchet in France to liaise with the maquis in the Auvergne . Relations with the maquis were not always easy and they had to cope with a series of vicious German counterattacks on Mont Mouchet and the surrounds . Once Paris had fallen to the allies , Cardozo led a maquis operation to stop a German battalion leaving Aurillac ; his efforts in this operation lead him to be awarded the Military Cross . After World War II . Cardozo stayed in the army after the war , retiring in 1958 , when he worked as a press attaché for American forces in France . Before this he had served in India and later in Palestine with the 6th Airborne Division , where he was an instructor at École de guerre in Paris . He later served as the college commander at Sandhurst . When the Americans left the command structure of NATO in 1966 , he returned to England and became the president of the Latin Mass Society . He later moved to Morocco and began working for the Save the Children Fund . Later still , he worked for De Beers in Sierra Leone . When he finally retired , he moved back to his childhood home of the Loire Valley .
Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicle The Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicle ( ALSV ) is an all - terrain light military vehicle developed by the United States . It is the successor to the Chenowth Light Strike Vehicle and the Desert Patrol Vehicle , and features improved performance and armament . The vehicle is relatively small , and can be carried in a transport aircraft . Although it is mainly used by the US Navy SEALs and Marine Corps , several other countries have procured it . Features . Chenowth Racing Products revealed in October 1996 that they had developed a " third - generation high - performance surveillance , light strike and reconnaissance vehicle " , which they named the Advanced Light Strike Vehicle ( ALSV ) . Based on its predecessor , the Chenowth Light Strike Vehicle ( LSV ) , the ALSV could carry two , three or four personnel . An all - terrain vehicle , the ALSV is powered by a 160 horsepower diesel engine produced by Porsche , and is equipped with four - wheel drive functionality as well as power steering . A version powered by a petrol engine has also been produced . An ALSV can be transported in a CH - 47 Chinook or CH - 53 Sea Stallion transport helicopter . Three can be carried in a C - 130 Hercules transport , while two can be carried for para - dropping . The crew are covered only by an upper frame of tubular bars , although light armor can be added . The ALSV weighs , and has a length of and a width of . It is in height , and has a ride height of . The ALSV can accelerate from 0 to in 4 seconds , and is capable of negotiating up to 75 % gradients and 50 % side slopes . Armament . The main weapons station , which is positioned to the rear of the vehicle , is capable of traversing 360 degrees and can accommodate either a M2 Browning machine gun or a Mk 19 grenade launcher . Light machine guns and portable anti - tank weapons may be carried as secondary armament . The weapons platforms can be remote controlled and feature gun stabilizing , allowing accurate fire while on the move . Users . The ALSV has been used by the United States Navy SEALs in Iraq and Afghanistan . Prior to this , both the SEALs and the United States Marine Corps had used the vehicle during Operation Desert Storm . ALSVs have also been procured by Jordan and the United Arab Emirates . According to Chenowth , they are also used by several Central American and Middle Eastern countries , as well as some member countries of NATO .
Battle of Fort De Russy The Battle of Fort De Russy was part of the Red River Campaign in the American Civil War and took place in Avoyelles Parish , Louisiana . On March 12 , 1864 , Brigadier General A . J . Smith and Brigadier General Joseph Mower led their men towards Shreveport , Louisiana , which they wanted to capture . The Union troops sailed down Berwick Bay and Bayou Teche with some difficulty because of obstructions Confederate forces placed there . Fort De Russy , however , blocked the Union advance , and was garrisoned with 350 Confederate soldiers . The fort also had a gun battery defended with iron armor in case of Union ironclad ships attacking them . Background . The Union launched a multi - purpose expedition into Rebel Gen . E . Kirby Smith ' s Trans - Mississippi Department , headquartered in Shreveport , Louisiana , in early 1864 . Maj . Gen . Nathaniel P . Banks and Rear Adm . David D . Porter jointly commanded the combined force . Porter ' s fleet and Brig . Gen . A . J . Smith ' s XVI and XVII Army Corps detachments of the Army of the Tennessee set out on March 12 , 1864 , up the Red River , the most direct route to Shreveport . Banks with the XIII and XIX Army Corps advanced by way of Berwick Bay and Bayou Teche . After removing various obstructions that the Rebels had placed in the river , the major impediment to the Union expedition was the formidable Fort DeRussy , an earthen fortification with a partly iron - plated battery designed to resist the fire of Union ironclads that might come up river . Union Brig . Gen . A . J . Smith ' s command had embarked on transports at Vicksburg and then disembarked at Simmesport , on the 12th , about thirty miles from Fort DeRussy . Smith sent out some troops on the morning of the 13th to determine if any enemy was in their path . This force dispersed and chased an enemy brigade , after which , Smith set his men in motion up the Fort DeRussy road . They did not proceed far before night . Battle . Early the next morning , March 14 , they continued the march , discovering that a Confederate division threatened their advance . Mindful of this threat , Smith had to place part of his command in a position to intercept these Rebel forces if they attacked . Upon arriving at the fort , the enemy garrison of 350 men opened fire . Smith decided to use Mower ' s division , XVI Army Corps , to take the fort and set about positioning it for the attack . Around 6 : 30 pm , Smith ordered a charge on the fort and about twenty minutes later , Mower ' s men scaled the parapet , causing the enemy to surrender . Fort DeRussy , which some had said was impregnable , had fallen and the Red River to Alexandria was open .