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    Gustavus Vasa Fox (June 13, 1821 – October 29, 1883) was an officer of the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War, and as the...
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  • was Secretary of the Navy, aided by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. When the war began, the American standing army or "Regular army" consisted...
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    USS Fox (DLG-33/CG-33) was a Belknap class cruiser of the United States Navy, named after Gustavus V. Fox, President Abraham Lincoln's Assistant Secretary...
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  • Gustavus Vasa may refer to: King Gustav I of Sweden The play Gustavus Vasa by Henry Brooke, first English play to be banned under the Licensing Act 1737...
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    federal judge Gustavus Fowke (1880–1946), English army officer and first-class cricketer Gustavus Fox (1821–1883), U.S. Navy officer Gustavus Richard Glenn...
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    called it "Guanahani." Samana Cay was first proposed to be Guanahani by Gustavus Fox in 1882, but the predominant theory gives the honour to San Salvador...
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    Aldershot Gustavus Fox (1821–1883), American naval officer in the Civil War Josiah Fox (1763–1847), Cornish-American naval architect Myles C. Fox (1918–1942)...
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    administration of shore facilities (such as naval bases and shipyards). Gustavus Fox was the first to hold the post, serving throughout the Civil War. The...
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  • of the Good Colonels, and Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography, about Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. He worked with his wife...
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    11-inch Dahlgren versus CSS Virginia, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox required the new monitors to be equipped with at least one gun of 15-inch...
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    just one of a few emissaries sent by Lincoln, the first being Captain Gustavus Fox, who went to determine if Fort Sumter could be relieved by sea. Lamon...
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  • Samuel Dana Greene Gideon Welles Franklin Buchanan Catesby ap Roger Jones Gustavus Fox Stephen Mallory French Forrest John Ericsson John Marston Louis N. Stodder...
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    Ericsson on 20 January 1862 and approved by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. While Ericsson stood on its deck in defiance of all his critics who...
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    Union Army, and eight others enlisted in the Union Navy. Saugus native Gustavus Fox served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the...
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    Dixon Porter wrote to his old friend, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox: I went on board a small English screw sloop the other day (the Jason (1859))...
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    standing firm at Fort Sumter, introduced Lincoln to his brother-in-law, Gustavus V. Fox. Fox presented a plan for a naval resupply and reinforcement of the fort...
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    When bids were requested for the ships, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox wrote to Ericsson to confirm that Stimers had arranged the details with...
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    Navy Gustavus Fox with a lavish banquet; Clay was given the honor of sitting between Eugenia and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna. Clay and Fox had previously...
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    and was promoted to captain on July 25. In May 1866, Augusta embarked Gustavus Fox, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and sailed on a cruise, accompanied...
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    John Ericsson requested it from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Gustavus Fox. Dictator was laid down by Delamater Iron Works, in New York, New York...
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  • Paulding, Commander Charles H. Davis and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. On August 7, 1861, the Union Navy advertised for proposals for "iron-clad...
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    Fox (DD-234/AG-85) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth ship named for Gustavus Vasa Fox,...
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  • Party presidential candidate 1884, for whom the Butler School is named Gustavus Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War Mary Hallaren,...
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    Peter Krause (category Gustavus Adolphus College alumni)
    He graduated from high school in 1983 and was a pre-medical student at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter until he discovered acting in his junior...
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  • commander of the USS Pawnee, USS Pocahontas and the USRC Harriet Lane under Gustavus Fox. However, on April 6, President Lincoln overrode the order, placed Lieutenant...
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  • on his first voyage to America. (This idea had first been proposed by Gustavus Fox in 1882). Prior to that time, official National Geographic Society maps...
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    those of Gustavus; previous experience also showed inviting external powers into the Empire was easier than getting them to leave. Gustavus put pressure...
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    criticized the way the attacks were carried out and later wrote Captain Gustavus Fox, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and an old shipmate, that the forts...
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    pressured Lincoln to appoint Gustavus Fox instead. As a compromise, the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy was created for Fox, and Faxon joined the United...
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  • May. There Miantonomoh embarked the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Gustavus Fox on 3 June and the British naval attaché, Captain John Bythesea, VC. The...
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