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In Warwick and Cranston, Rhode Island, Gaspee Day commemorates the sinking of the HBMS Gaspee by Rhode Islanders in 1772. From Wikipedia: ...

Thomas M. Truxes - Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York Everyone in colonial New York City traded with the enemy (the ...

Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and his Admirals Weeks into his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was confronted with his first naval question: What to ...

Providence, Rhode Island's sunken Russian submarine will finally be raised as part of a training exercise by the US Navy. The sub, whic...

Christopher Hitchens has written a good piece on Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates . I've spent some time on the Barbary Pirates...

Can you find the Russian Submarine in this picture? Yup....it's under water! But it wasn't until the recent storm that hit Providen...

With nominations for the 2nd Annual Cliopatria Awards opening soon, I thought I'd offer up some of my best/favorite posts over the past ...