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Battle of Lake Providence The battle of Lake Providence occurred on June 9 , 1863 during siege of Vicksburg in the American Civil War . The battle was meant to be in conjunction with Confederate attacks against Union supply depots at Young ' s Point and Milliken ' s Bend on June 7 . However the Confederate commander , Lt . Col . Frank Bartlett set out 48 hours behind schedule , but still pushed on toward the Federal garrison . The Union forces were commanded by Brig . Gen . Hugh T . Reid and greatly outnumbered Bartlett . Reid ' s brigade was a mixed command of white soldiers and United States Colored Troops . Bartlett formed a line of battle supported by artillery and attacked . Reid ' s sharpshooters drove off the artillery and a brief skirmish ensued . The Confederates withdrew having lost 2 and another 4 wounded . The Federals reported only 1 man wounded . The three Confederate attacks against Federal supplies in Louisiana failed and the Union grip on Vicksburg continued to tighten .
Tupolev Tu - 98 The Tupolev Tu - 98 ( NATO reporting name Backfin ) was a prototype swept wing jet bomber developed by Tupolev for the Soviet Union . Design and development . The Tu - 98 emerged from a program for a fast supersonic bomber to replace the Tupolev Tu - 16 . It was powered by two Lyulka AL - 7 turbojet engines with side - mounted intakes high on the fuselage ( above the wingroot ) . The Tu - 98 was built in 1955 and first flown in 1956 . It was shown to an American delegation at the Kubinka air base outside Moscow in June 1956 , but it subsequently did not enter service , and only the single prototype was completed . The basic design of the Tu - 98 had a great influence on the subsequent prototype of the Tupolev Tu - 28 interceptor .
USS Seahorse ( SSN - 669 ) USS " Seahorse " ( SSN - 669 ) , a " Sturgeon " - class attack submarine , was the second submarine and third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seahorse . Construction and commissioning . The contract to build " Seahorse " was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton , Connecticut , on 9 March 1965 and her keel was laid down there on 13 August 1966 . She was launched on 15 June 1968 , sponsored by Mrs . Paul Ignatius , and commissioned on 19 September 1969 with Commander George T . Harper , Jr . , in command . Service history . Following a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea and visits to Roosevelt Roads and San Juan , Puerto Rico , and Frederiksted on St . Croix in the United States Virgin Islands , " Seahorse " returned to her home port , Charleston , South Carolina . Through November 1970 , she operated in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean , engaging in local operations and conducting attack submarine training . On 30 November 1970 , " Seahorse " got underway from Charleston on her first major deployment , in which she operated in the Atlantic and visited Bremerhaven , West Germany , before returning to Charleston on 14 February 1971 . For the next four months , " Seahorse " conducted attack submarine training , engaged in air group operations , and made final preparations for an extended Mediterranean Sea deployment . Departing Charleston on 21 June 1971 , she arrived at Rota , Spain , on 2 July 1971 . She continued to operate in the Mediterranean until 4 October 1971 , when she headed back to Charleston . She remained in Charleston for the next three and one - half months . On 24 January 1972 , " Seahorse " ran aground and was stranded for two hours while attempting to put to sea from Charleston . After breaking free , she returned to port for repairs . On 9 February 1972 , " Seahorse " again departed Charleston for a North Atlantic Ocean deployment , visiting Faslane , Scotland , before returning to Charleston on 11 May 1972 . During the months of June , July , and August 1972 , she spent four weeks at sea in the Atlantic providing services for air groups and participating in destroyer operations . In September 1972 , " Seahorse " departed for the North Atlantic to participate in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Exercise " Strong Express , " followed by exercises with the United Kingdom and Canada in October 1972 and with the Royal Netherlands Navy in November 1972 . She returned to Charleston on 5 November 1972 . " Seahorse " continued to operate out of Charleston into at least 1974 . Decommissioning and disposal . " Seahorse " was decommissioned on 17 August 1995 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day . Her scrapping via the Nuclear - Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton , Washington , began on 1 March 1995 and was completed on 30 September 1996 . One of her sail planes is on public display in memorial garden at the former Sand Point Naval Air Station ( now Warren G . Magnuson Park ) near Seattle .
Popular Committees ( Syria ) The Popular Committees ( also called Lijan militias ; " al - Lijan al - Sha ' biyah " , meaning " people ' s committees " ) were militias that emerged in Syria during the Syrian civil war . They originated as neighborhood vigilante groups in the Christian , Druze and Alawi and Shia Muslim quarters of Damascus and elsewhere to prevent the infiltration of Sunni - dominated rebel groups . However , the Popular Committees included a significant number of Sunni Muslims as well . The Popular Committees were reportedly armed by the Syrian government and manned checkpoints around their districts . They were accused by residents of carrying out extrajudicial executions and revenge killings . Reuters quoted a Druze resident of Jaramana : " [ The government ] say the Lijans help us protect ourselves , but really they just wanted to light the sectarian fuse in Damascus " . " StrategyPage " claimed that the Syrian Army offered weapons to minority communities in contested cities : " if the minorities will form self - defense militias and keep rebels out , the Army will not fire artillery at those neighborhoods " . Tony Badran of " Now Lebanon " commented : " Assad seeks to assemble the minorities around him in order to present himself as the sole and unavoidable interlocutor on behalf of these segments of Syrian society , where he has cultivated loyal patches " . The United States has also accused Iran of setting up and training Shia militias in Syria . In Aleppo , some residents claimed that the Syrian Army organized a Christian militia during fighting there in August 2012 . In the Jdeideh quarter , the Christian militia was allegedly the first to fight against rebels . The day after a bombing killed four government officials , including the Greek Orthodox Christian Syrian Minister of Defence , General Dawoud Rajiha , it was reported by residents that at least 200 AK - 47s were handed out in a Christian neighborhood of Damascus . From around mid - 2012 , hundreds of Popular Committees and other irregular paramilitary groups were merged into what became the National Defense Force , bringing more organisation to the groups and subordinating them within the Syrian security structures .
George Jarratt George Jarratt VC ( 20 July 1891 – 3 May 1917 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . World War I . Jarratt was awarded the VC for a deed which took place when he was 25 years old on 3 May 1917 near Pelves , France . He was a corporal in the 8th Battalion , The Royal Fusiliers , British Army during the First World War . Citation . Jarratt ' s wife Gertrude and their daughter Joyce received his medal from the King on 21 July 1917 . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Fusiliers Museum in the Tower of London .
Siegfried Grabert Siegfried Grabert ( 11 January 1916 – 25 July 1942 ) was a highly decorated Major der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Siegfried Grabert was killed on 25 July 1942 during a commando operation to destroy a dam between Rostov and Bataisk . He was posthumously promoted to Major der Reserve and on 6 November 1943 was awarded the Oak Leaves to his Knight ' s Cross .
Emanuel Stance Emanuel Stance ( 1843 – December 25 , 1887 ) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America ' s highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States . Stance joined the Army in October 1866 , and was promoted to Sergeant just a few months later . At the time of his actions , Stance was serving in Company F of the 9th Cavalry Regiment at Fort McKavett . On May 20 , 1870 , he was sent with a patrol to find the Apaches who had kidnapped Herman Lehmann and his younger brother , Willie , four days earlier . Stance and his men located the raiding party near Kickapoo Springs , about fourteen miles north of Fort McKavett , and opened fire . The Apaches abandoned their stolen horses and fled , enabling Willie Lehmann to escape during the chaos . For his bravery on this mission , Stance was cited for " [ g ] allantry on scout after Indians " and became the first African - American regular to receive the Medal of Honor a month later , on June 28 , 1870 . Stance reached the rank of First Sergeant before being murdered on Christmas Eve , 1887 . His body was found on the road to Crawford , Nebraska with several bullet wounds ; the probable victim of his own men . He was buried at Fort McPherson National Cemetery , Maxwell , Nebraska . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Sergeant , Company F , 9th U . S . Cavalry . Place and date : At Kickapoo Springs , Tex . , 20 May 1870 . Entered service at . - - - - - - . Birth : Carroll Parish , La . Date of issue : 28 June 1870 . Citation . Gallantry on scout after Indians .
Base Borden Military Museum Base Borden Military Museum is a military museum located on the grounds of CFB Borden , in Borden , Ontario , Canada . Combining four separate museums , it has numerous items , equipment and vehicles from all eras of Canadian military history , including a large number of historic armored vehicles and aircraft displayed outside in the Major - General F . F . Worthington Memorial Park and around the base . The museum is located about 100 km north of Toronto , Ontario . The museum , which combines all the separate museums at the base , was established in the 1990s . In June 2007 a new main building for the museum complex was opened , with a large hangar for the display of historic military vehicles . The museum complex consists of several buildings and a memorial park . The Museum is affiliated with : CMA , CHIN , OMMC and Virtual Museum of Canada .
HMS Northumberland ( 1798 ) HMS " Northumberland " was a 74 - gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , built at the yards of Barnard , Deptford and launched on 2 February 1798 . " Northumberland " , , , , and the brig shared in the proceeds of the French polacca " Vengeance " , captured entering Valetta , Malta on 6 April . Because " Northumberland " served in the navy ' s Egyptian campaign ( 8 March to 8 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 . " Northumberland " participated in the Battle of San Domingo , where she was damaged , and suffered 21 killed and 74 wounded , the highest casualties of any British ship in the battle . On 22 November 1810 , " Northumberland " , while in the company of HMS " Armada " , a 74 - gun third rate , captured the 14 - gun French privateer ketch " La Glaneuse " . She received a measure of fame when she transported Napoleon I into captivity on the Island of Saint Helena . Napoleon had surrendered to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS " Bellerophon " , on 15 July 1815 and was then transported to Plymouth . Napoleon was transferred from the " Bellerophon " to the " Northumberland " for his final voyage to St . Helena because concerns were expressed about the suitability of the ageing ship . HMS " Northumberland " was therefore selected instead . She was converted to a hulk in February 1827 , and returned to Deptford to be broken up in 1850 .
USS Bateleur ( AMc - 37 ) USS " Bateleur " ( AMc - 37 ) was an " Accentor " - class coastal minesweeper in the U . S . Navy . She was named after the Bateleur , a short - tailed eagle common to eastern Africa . " Bateleur " was laid down on 21 January 1941 at Ipswich , Massachusetts , by W . A . Robinson , Inc . ; launched on 12 May 1941 ; sponsored by Mrs . Warren S . Little ; fitted out for naval service by the Boston Navy Yard ; and placed in service there on 18 August 1941 , Ensign Burrill D . Barker , Jr . , USNR , in charge . World War II East Coast operations . The coastal minesweeper departed Boston , Massachusetts on 30 August and shaped a course for the Chesapeake Bay . She arrived at Solomons Island , Maryland in Calvert County , Maryland , where the Patuxent River empties into Chesapeake Bay , on 2 September . After a week of degaussing experiments at Solomons Island , the ship moved south to Yorktown , Virginia , on 10 September and remained there until the beginning of October when she received orders to return to Boston . " Bateleur " reentered Boston on 4 October and began almost four years of service with the 1st Naval District Inshore Patrol . Operating primarily from the Newport , Rhode Island , section base , she patrolled the shoreline of the 1st Naval District until near the end of World War II . Deactivation . Late in July 1945 , the coastal minesweeper received orders to proceed to Charleston , South Carolina , for inactivation and disposal . She arrived at the Naval Frontier Base , Charleston , on 8 August and was placed out of service there on 15 November 1945 . She was placed in the Charleston Group , Atlantic Reserve Fleet , but her name was struck from the Navy list on 28 November 1945 . On 20 August 1947 , the Maritime Commission sold her to the Whaling City Dredge & Dock Corporation of Groton , Connecticut .
Battle of Yanbu The Battle of Yanbu or Yanbu Landing , was a bloodless confrontation between the Saudis and Ottomans in 1811 . The Ottoman Sultan ordered Mohammed Ali Pasha to start moving against Saudis to re - conquer Mecca and return the honour of the Ottoman Empire . Mohammed Ali sent his son Tusun Pasha with an army of 10 , 000 as a beginning to land in Yanbu , rendering it a station to re - conquer the other cities . Tusun forces landed successfully in Yanbu and the Saudis forces with a strength of just 70 men surrendered without any loses .
Bernardim Freire de Andrade Bernardim Freire de Andrade ( Lisbon , 18 February 1759 — Braga , 17 March 1809 ) , was a Portuguese Army general officer who was assigned to command the forces of the Porto Junta in 1808 during the Peninsular War . The commander of the British invasion force , Sir Arthur Wellesley complained that it was difficult to cooperate with Freire . In March 1809 , Freire commanded an army composed mostly of unruly militia which was opposed to Marshal Nicolas Soult ' s army of professional French soldiers . Freire understood that his poorly trained men stood little chance against the French but he was afraid to order a retreat because he feared for his life . When he tried to leave the army , he was arrested and put in the Braga jail . Soon afterward , a group of militiamen broke into the jail and murdered him . On 20 March , Soult ' s army attacked and inflicted terrible losses on the Portuguese in the Battle of Braga .
Bureau of Navigation The Bureau of Navigation , later the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection and finally the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation – not to be confused with the United States Navy s Bureau of Navigation – was an agency of the United States Government established in 1884 to enforce laws relating to the construction , equipment , operation , inspection , safety , and documentation of merchant vessels . The bureau also investigated marine accidents and casualties ; collected tonnage taxes and other navigation fees ; and examined , certified and licensed merchant - vessel sailors . When established , the Bureau of Navigation was a part of the United States Department of the Treasury . In 1903 , the organization was transferred to the newly formed Department of Commerce and Labor . In 1913 that department was split in two and the bureau was assigned to the new Department of Commerce . In 1932 the bureau was combined with the Steamboat Inspection Service to form the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection . The Bureau of Navigation and Steam Inspection was in turn renamed the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation in 1936 . In 1942 , Executive Order 9083 transferred many functions of the bureau to two other agencies : Merchant vessel documentation was transferred to the United States Customs Service , while functions relating to merchant vessel inspection , safety of life at sea , and merchant vessel personnel were transferred to the United States Coast Guard . The merchant vessel documention functions were also transferred to the Coast Guard in 1946 . The Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation was abolished as unnecessary and redundant by Reorganization Plan No . III of 1946 , with all functions being absorbed by the U . S . Customs Service and the U . S . Coast Guard . Flags . Ships of the Bureau of Navigation , the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection , and the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation flew a blue flag with a white three - masted sailing ship within a red disc . Ships of the bureau with the director of the bureau embarked also flew the directors flag , which featured the same white three - masted sailing ship on a completely blue field .
Naval Discharge Review Board The Naval Discharge Review Board ( NDRB ) is a board established by Congress the United States Department of the Navy before which members of the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps can challenge the propriety of the terms of their discharge from the military . It is located at the Washington Navy Yard . 10 U . S . C . § 1553 required the Secretaries of all branches of the United States armed forces to " establish a board of review , consisting of five members , to review the discharge or dismissal ( other than a discharge or dismissal by sentence of a general court - martial ) of any former member of an armed force under the jurisdiction of his department upon its own motion or upon the request of the former member or , if he is dead , his surviving spouse , next of kin , or legal representative . " As such , the NDRB was created by the United States Secretary of the Navy by SECNAVINST 5420 . 174D . The purpose of reviews conducted by the NDRB is to determine whether a discharge was granted in the proper manner , and to determine if a given discharge is fair / equitable in light of the regulations that were in effect at the time of the discharge . The NDRB does not have the authority to reinstate a member to service . The Review Board has broad powers to correct any impropriety or inequity even if it only has preponderance of such impropriety or inequity . The NDRB does not have the authority to review discharges that occurred more than 15 years in the past or that were the result of a sentence awarded by a General Court Martial . If more than 15 yrs from discharge applicants must apply to Board of Corrections Navy Records using Form DD - 149 . The Form DD - 293 , periodically the OMB approval expires on this form and months will pass before a new one is approved , it seems the NDRB still accepts these exspired applications . The NDRB is a member of the Secretary of the Navy Council of Review Boards and is overseen by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy ( Manpower and Reserve Affairs ) .
HMCS Digby ( J267 ) HMCS " Digby " ( J267 ) was a that served in the Royal Canadian Navy . She was commissioned on 26 July 1942 and paid off on 31 July 1945 . She was recommissioned from 1953 - 1958 . She was used , along with HMCS " Granby " , in 1953 on Lake Ontario to test the Royal Canadian Navy ' s DATAR system .
Intelligent Whale Intelligent Whale , an experimental hand - cranked submarine , was built on the design of Scovel Sturgis Merriam in 1863 by Augustus Price and Cornelius Scranton Bushnell . In 1864 the American Submarine Company was formed , taking over the interests of Bushnell and Price and there followed years of litigation over the ownership of the craft . When title was established by a court the submarine was sold on 29 October 1869 through a contract made by owner Oliver Halstead and Secretary of the Navy George M . Robeson to the United States Navy Department , with most of the price to be paid after successful trials . In September 1872 the first trial was held and was unsuccessful , whereupon the Department refused further payments and abandoned the project . " Intelligent Whale " submerged by filling water compartments , and expelled the water by pumps and compressed air . It was estimated that it could stay submerged for about ten hours . Thirteen crewmen could be accommodated , but only six were needed to make her operational . The only known trial , reported by submarine pioneer John Philip Holland , was made by a certain General Sweeney and two others . They submerged the boat in 16 feet of water and Sweeney , clad in a diver ' s suit , emerged through a hole in the bottom , placed a charge under a scow , and reentered the submarine . The charge was exploded by a lanyard and a friction primer attached to the charge , sinking the scow . , this submarine is on exhibit at the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey in Sea Girt , New Jersey . Sources . no xx
Sieg automatic rifle The Sieg automatic rifle was a bullpup automatic rifle designed by Chief Gunner ' s Mate James E . Sieg of the US Coast Guard . The weapon was chambered in the . 30 - 06 round , fed from 20 round magazines and capable of firing around 650 – 700 RPM on full automatic . A two - finger double trigger selected between semi - and full - automatic fire . The barrel came with a unique muzzle compensator that could be turned off for use with a flash hider or grenade launcher without interfering when also installing a bayonet . Recoil gently threw the barrel of the Sieg rifle downward , not upward . When tested at Fort Benning , it had effective results . The compensator was extremely effective ; it also enabled the user to fire the rifle with one hand . Sieg obtained a patent for his compensator in 1948 , as USPTO 2451514 .