Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy ... Revolutionary War -- partly out of desperation for seamen of any color, and partly because many blacks were already experienced sailors, having served in ...

During the Revolutionary War, he commanded ships off the ... enough to see the day” when an American navy could fight the British “ship to ship,” and that “we should procure him then ...

On June 15, 1859, an American settler named Lyman Cutlar noticed a pig rooting around in his potato patch on one of the San Juan Islands. The pig had "been at several times a great annoyance," and the ...