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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Hornet33 on April 09, 2008, 09:38:03 AM
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9 April
1859-Samuel Clemens, who later gained fame under the pseudonym Mark Twain, was issued a steamboat pilot's certificate.
1867- The Senate ratified a treaty to purchase Alaska from Russia. The cutter Lincoln was dispatched at once with LT George W. Moore, USRM, as the first U.S. agent in the territory.
1941- The U.S. and Denmark signed an "agreement relating to the defense of Greenland." The Coast Guard, because of its experience in the Arctic environment, was the principal service to carry out the agreement. The first action seen by U.S. forces in World War II was the seizure of a Nazi weather station and the seizure of a Nazi vessel by the cutter Northland just before the United States officially entered the war.
Semper Paratus :aok
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Why did Russia sell the land we call Alaska? Why did we buy it?
Were they in need of cash? America really wanted it so they gave the russians an offer they couldn't refuse?
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They lost it in a poker game.
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Seward pulled a pistol from his saddlebag and put it on the saddle horn for the Russians to see....
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Seward pulled a pistol from his saddlebag and put it on the saddle horn for the Russians to see....
They lost it in a poker game.
Wtf? :huh
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Russia needed the money for their Trans-Siberian Railway.
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2 Days before this date in Coast Guard history.
1978- I enlisted.
Semper Paratus :salute
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WTG rpm. :salute