He served as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy at age 9; that "Damn the torpedoes" quote came 55 years later
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Lieut. George B. Livingston, U.S. Navy, photograph by Mathew ...  George B. Livingston, U.S. Navy U.S. National Archives' Local Identifier: 111-B-2769 From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities...
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Jeopary Questions page 2244 - COWBOYS & CATTLEMEN ...  "F" WORDS: He served as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy at age 9; that "Damn the torpedoes" quote came 55 years later  "F" WORDS: He served as a...
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Bruce Guthrie Photos: MD -- Annapolis -- US Naval Academy ...  Warned of the torpedoes, Farragut famously yelled out, "Damn the torpedoes. ... He died an hour later, the first Union naval officer killed in the war. ... Three years later, he accepted an appointment as a midshipman in the United States Navy. ... The clash between Monitor and Virginia on March 9, 1862, marked the end of...
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NAS Pensacola - Timeline | Facebook  150 Hase Rd, Ste A. Pensacola, FL 32508-1051 ... In 1841 he was again ordered to Brazil Station, returning two years later. In April 1844 he was made executive officer of the Receiving Ship at Norfolk, Virginia,...
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ADMIRAL DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT: A STUDY OF THE ...  Jun 4, 1999 ... Fox had served eighteen years as a naval officer and was well ... father, who signed up Farragut as a seagoing midshipman in the U.S. Navy at the age of nine, and with Porter's son, the only other full admiral to emerge .... Damn the Torpedoes! ..... He also studied the French plans of attack.46 Farragut later.
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Quote/Counterquote: Don't trust anyone over 30  or under 30 (or ...  Jun 8, 2015 ... This famed Sixties slogan has been attributed to various people, most frequently to Yippie leader Jerry Rubin. Rubin and his Yippie ... I grew up in the era of don't trust anyone over 30. ... American writer, 1960s Black Panther Party leader ... Quoting himself in his book 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said.
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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES - Saints and Heroes  In May of 2003 he celebrated his 100th birthday with a typical wisecrack: "I'm so old they've .... Hope, overcome at the sight of a glamorous Dorothy Lamour: "How did you get into that dress  with a spray gun?"  The Road to Rio, Paramount 1947. *** Hope ... When we were kids he ate a beetle just because I asked him to.
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Matthew Calbraith Perry - The Robinson Library  Sep 14, 2016 ... He began his own naval career in 1809 as a Midshipman on the USS Revenge, ... second in command at the New York Naval Yard in January 1833. ... the USS Fulton II, the first steam war vessel of the U.S. Navy, from August ... Japanese waters and the opening of one or more ports to American vessels for...
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My 22 favorite quotes from Catch-22 (and then some) | Getting Free  Jun 5, 2013 ... I've read the incomparably hilarious book Catch-22 three times (that's 18 ... Across the aisle from Yossarian was Dunbar, and next to Dunbar was the artillery captain with whom Yossarian had ... Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never msised. ... 'That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.'.
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what does Four Score and Seven Years ago mean?? | Yahoo Answers  Oct 13, 2007 ... It's from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - the country was 87 years old when he ... "Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago," .... Some have already interpreted the numerical value as 87, and have...
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The USS Hartford | University of Hartford  After more than fifty years at sea, at the age of 61, Captain Farragut was ... where she had been dry-docked and took on final provisions in New Castle, DE. ... In April 1862, Captain Farragut began his campaign against New Orleans. ... That August, in 1862, Captain Farragut was notified of his promotion to Rear Admiral.
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Horatio Nelson - Wikiquote  Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone. ... 1.1 1790s; 1.2 1800s; 1.3 The Battle of Trafalgar (1805) ..... Thank God, I have done my duty. Statement among his final dying words.
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Billy Budd Book Notes - BookRags.com  His cousin had proceeded over the court-martial and hanging of a man in the U.S. Navy. ... Details from this event inspired the increasingly religious Melville later in his life to ... Captain Vere is at first confused, but he calls a court of other officers to ... He also happens to be the corporal who tells Claggart that Billy Budd has...
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The Goat Locker  ... of Navy Staff, started this training on the USS Constitution four years ago. .... After all of these wonderful things a recitation of Oliver Wendell Holmes famous poem, Old ... Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high
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"YOU MAY FIRE WHEN YOU ARE READY, GRIDLEY." : January ...  Aug 19, 1998 ... At 5:40 A.M. Dewey finally hailed Gridley with the now-famous words, You ... The ensuing Battle of Manila Bay ended with the destruction of the ... Fleet, and he didn't want the captain of his flagship debilitated by illness. ... Thank you, Commodore, he said, but [the Olympia] is my ship and I will fight her.
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Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia  Battles/wars, World War II. Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908  May 2, 1957) was an American ... In succeeding years after his 1950 speech, McCarthy made additional .... Because of McCarthy's various lies about his military heroism, his "Tail-Gunner Joe" nickname was sarcastically used as a term of...
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Old Man Mellows At Age 104 - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel  Jul 22, 2001 ... COJIMAR, Cuba -- After a lifetime of fish tales, Gregorio Fuentes appears ... inspired Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea turned 104. ... kitchen door of his house in the rundown fishing village of Cojimar. ... His father, a sailor, had died en route after the ship's mast hit him in ... September 24, 2002.
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History-- "Damn The Torpedoes" Alabama Public Radio | Alabama ...  Nov 25, 2014 ... Ended up being the first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. .... Perhaps the officer in command of the fort may have proven himself a traitor. ... It's one of the famous sayings he used to hear around the campus during his ... which doesn't have the same ring as 'damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead.
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Born on the Fourth of July (film) - Wikiquote  Marine Sergeant: [to high school boys] Not everybody can become United States ... We put the Russians back on their feet after World War II and they took ... We're gonna come back and beat them someday. ... Vietnam don't mean nothing to me man, or any of these other people. .... Mrs. Kovic: Don't say penis in this house!
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Local News: The few, the proud -- joining the Marines (4/22/08 ...  Apr 22, 2008 ... Once he starts his active duty, his five years of service is considered on-the-job training," Sheri Knipe explained. "So, once Matthew completes...
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J! Archive - Show #5022, aired 2006-06-13  Jun 13, 2006 ... He was elected as a Missouri senator in 1934; 10 years later, he got a ... He's seen here with his dad, the admiral, after returning from his...