A Salute to the U.S. Navy

By wp_vls_admin | October 31, 2025 |

About 30 angry colonists set out in a whaling sloop called Success May 13-14, 1775, to retrieve a pair of merchant vessels captured by HMS Falcon in Buzzards Bay off the coast of Fairhaven Massachusetts.  The sloop was aptly named.  Outnumbered almost 4 to 1, the colonists, under no military command, retrieved the ships, killed…

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