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 ...

The British navy tracked a Russian spy ship in the English Channel this week, the UK's defence secretary has said, amid concerns about the sabotage of undersea cables. Defence Secretary John ...

The British navy said Wednesday that it is ramping up ... vessel in UK waters for the second time in weeks. The Russian spy ship, called Yantar, sailed through the English Channel this week ...

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 ...

If the Iranians continue to act aggressively and recklessly in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy should give them a bloody nose. The Iranian Revolutionary ... to sink U.S. ships.