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    CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy. The vessel was built in Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool...
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    of Cherbourg, or sometimes the Battle off Cherbourg or the Sinking of CSS Alabama, was a single-ship action fought during the American Civil War between...
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    The claims focused chiefly on the most famous of these raiders, the CSS Alabama, which took more than sixty prizes before she was sunk off the French...
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    left New York on 10 November and—after conducting a brief search for CSS Alabama, the most destructive Confederate commerce raider of the entire war—put...
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    Confederate States Navy as CSS Florida. Union naval records often referred to her as Oreto or confused her with CSS Alabama, another Confederate vessel...
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    USS Kearsarge (1861) (category CSS Alabama)
    sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France during the American Civil War. Kearsarge was built...
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    Brazilian foreign minister about two Confederate steamers, the CSS Alabama and the CSS Georgia, that had been receiving provisions and repairs at ports...
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    During an engagement with the disguised Confederate commerce raider, CSS Alabama, she was taken by surprise and was sunk off the coast of Galveston, Texas...
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    historic 1864 action off Cherbourg, France, with the Confederate sea raider CSS Alabama. Although born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Winslow was a member of...
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    possible link between the Birkenhead, England built CSS Alabama and Captain Nemo's Nautilus. The CSS Alabama was a warship built in secrecy for the Confederate...
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    "Roll, Alabama, Roll" (Roud 4710) is an American-British sea shanty of the nineteenth century. It is based on the exploits of the CSS Alabama, a sloop-of-war...
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    merchant shipping. The most famous of them was the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama, a warship secretly built for the Confederacy in Birkenhead, near Liverpool...
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  • Crimson Tide, which was set on the eponymous submarine. CSS Alabama SS Alabama MV Maersk Alabama, the merchant ship involved in a 2009 piracy incident  This...
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    Mobius Arch, Lathe Arch, the Eye of Alabama and Whitney Portal Arch. The Alabama Hills were named for the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship deployed during...
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  • nicknamed "Alabama" Alabama people, Native Americans of the Southeastern culture USS Alabama, numerous United States Navy ships CSS Alabama, a screw sloop-of-war...
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    Confederate raider CSS Alabama. Many spectators were able to see the battle from the coast of France and saw the USS Kearsarge sink the CSS Alabama. Not having...
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    conscience, and an offence against divine law. After his speech, a senator from Alabama urged that there be no reply: "The ravings of a maniac may sometimes be...
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    CSS Gaines was a wooden side wheel gunboat, weighing 863 tons, constructed by the Confederates at Mobile, Alabama, during 1861–62. The ship was hastily...
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    for the war. CSS Alabama, screw steamer, sloop-of-war, built in Birkenhead, England by John Laird Sons and Company, sunk: June 19, 1864 CSS Alexandra, screw...
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    CSS Georgia, also known as State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram, was an ironclad warship built in Savannah, Georgia in 1862 during the American Civil War...
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    Raphael Semmes (category CSS Alabama)
    1860. During the American Civil War, Semmes was captain of the cruiser CSS Alabama, the most successful commerce raider in maritime history, taking 65 prizes...
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  • building two warships for the Confederacy, including the CSS Alabama. Known as the Alabama Claims, the controversy was partially resolved peacefully...
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    its owners after the USS Kearsarge, the ship that destroyed the CSS Alabama. The Alabama Hills were named after the latter ship, and the mine was named...
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  • warship, the CSS Alabama. The English name, Alabama, was respelt in the Cape Dutch vernacular to Alibama. In the American Civil War, the CSS Alabama sailed...
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    CSS Alabama's Gulf of Mexico Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the Confederate States Navy ship CSS Alabama left Bermuda and the Atlantic coast...
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    CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King and later El Majidi, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged sailing ship with auxiliary steam power chiefly known...
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    H. L. Hunley (redirect from CSS H.L. Hunley)
    H. L. Hunley, also known as the Hunley, CSS H. L. Hunley, or CSS Hunley, was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part...
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    fought during the American Civil War in January 1863. Confederate raider CSS Alabama encountered and sank the United States Navy steamer USS Hatteras off...
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    Roll Tide (category Alabama Crimson Tide)
    "cultural keyword... emblematic of the culture of the [University of Alabama]." The CSS Alabama was a very successful Commerce Raider during the Civil War. Many...
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    the American Civil War. Sent to the Pacific Ocean to search for the CSS Alabama, Wyoming eventually came upon the shores of Japan and engaged Japanese...
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