Posted on 08/30/2016 4:23:55 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The Class of 1885 were born during the Civil War, and grew up in the political and social turmoil of the Reconstruction Era. They would enter the fleet just as American interest in the world was beginning to increase, the very summer that Alfred Thayer Mahan was promoted to Captain and began writing his lectures for the new Naval War College. Many would go on to serve as junior officers in the Spanish-American War.
1. Give an account of any three of the following: (1) The settlement of Georgia. (2) The loss of New Netherlands by the Dutch. (3) Jay’s Treaty. (4) The Ostend Manifesto. (5) The Crittenden Compromise.
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That was one of the topics I knew nothing about. Thanks.
No. Sorry.
But I do know how to work a TV remote, if that counts for anything.
Let that midshipman give a timeline of the rise of modern liberalism and discuss the actions of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Specifically how those actions have endangered the U.S.
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