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    cousins, William and James K. Hackett, launched on 28 April 1778, and renamed Alliance on 29 May 1778 by resolution of the Continental Congress. Her first commanding...
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  • named Alliance. USS Alliance (1778), was a sailing frigate of the Continental Navy, and notable for firing the last shots of the Revolutionary War. USS Alliance (1875)...
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  • French Navy sold her in 1784. USS Hancock (1778), was a frigate launched 28 April 1778, and renamed USS Alliance (1778) by the Continental Congress to...
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    The Treaty of Alliance (French: traité d'alliance (1778)), also known as the Franco-American Treaty, was a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of France...
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    Franco-American alliance was the 1778 alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States during the American Revolutionary War. Formalized in the 1778 Treaty...
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  • Alliance for a cruise in the West Indies. She returned to Philadelphia 17 April with one prize, the armed ship Viper. On 29 July she joined with USS Boston...
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    Schmitt 1970, p. 26. Schmitt 1970, pp. 27-28. Schmitt 1970, p. 29. "USS Alliance (1778)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. United States Navy...
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    dispute escalated further due to different interpretations of the 1778 treaties of Alliance and Commerce between the two countries. France, then engaged in...
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  • Nowland Van Powell Continental Sloop Providence (1775-1779) signed WNVP USS Alliance (1778) "Farnsworth Building, Memphis". gigapan.com. Retrieved 5 April 2018...
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    (APA-127) USS Allentown (PG-160/PF-52) USS Alliance (1778, 1877, AMc-64) USS Alligator (1809, 1813, 1820, 1862) USS Allioth (AK-109/IX-204/AVS-4) USS Alloway...
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    ship USS Delaware, a brig sailing under a letter of marque and capturing British vessels in the Delaware River. In 1778, Barry assumed command of USS Raleigh...
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    the head of a five-ship squadron including the 36-gun USS Alliance, 32-gun USS Pallas, 12-gun USS Vengeance, and Le Cerf, also accompanied by two privateers...
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  • The Franco-Polish Alliance was the military alliance between Poland and France that was active between the early 1920s and the outbreak of the Second World...
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  • Events from the year 1778 in Great Britain. Monarch – George III Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North (Tory) 18 January – the third Pacific expedition...
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  • Pierre Laval, was sceptical of the desirability and of the value of an alliance with the Soviet Union. However, after the declaration of German rearmament...
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    American Revolutionary War (category Conflicts in 1778)
    April 24, 1778, the first victory for any American military vessel in British waters. The last such victory was by the frigate USS Alliance, commanded...
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    Erasmus Roterodamus. Weishaupt later expelled Sutor for indolence. In April 1778, the order became the Illuminatenorden, or Order of Illuminati, after Weishaupt...
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    recaptured the British sloop-of-war HMS Atalanta, which the American frigate USS Alliance had captured on 27 May. Charlestown, under Captain Henry Francis Evans...
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    Continental Navy. Morris was a leading member of Congress until he resigned in 1778. Out of office, Morris refocused on his merchant career and won election...
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  • (September 9, 2005). "U.S.S. Titan Design Winner Announced". Slice of SciFi. Retrieved October 12, 2011. "Christie's sale #1778, lot #712". Retrieved...
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    Battle of Rhode Island (category 1778 in Rhode Island)
    Island (also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill) took place on August 29, 1778. Continental Army and Militia forces under the command of Major General John...
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    all hands 10 September 1829 USS Independence (1776 sloop), wrecked 24 April 1778 USS Jamestown (1844) USS Julia (1863) USS Levant (1837), lost with all...
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  • 2, 1777 – June 30, 1777) Capture of USS Hancock (July 8, 1777 – July 9, 1777) Battle off Liverpool (April 24, 1778). Battle off Halifax (July 10, 1780)...
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    Valley Forge (category 1778 in Pennsylvania)
    Valley Forge encampment lasted six months, from December 19, 1777 to June 19, 1778. It was the third and harshest of the eight winter encampments that Washington...
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  • Until early in 1778 the conflict was a civil war within the British Empire, but afterward it became an international war as France (in 1778) and Spain (in...
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    Esek Hopkins, and it was unfurled on the main mast of Hopkins's flagship USS Alfred on December 20, 1775. Two days later, Congress made Hopkins commander-in-chief...
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    but remained officially neutral until 1778. The Treaty of Alliance established the Franco-American alliance, and France entered the war on behalf of...
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  • British ships while in command of this and two other vessels. In September 1778, Harding accepted a Continental Navy commission and took command of Confederacy...
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    military alliance in early 1778; France thus became the first foreign nation to officially recognize the Declaration of Independence. On February 6, 1778, the...
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  • Trek franchise, most often seen as the captain of the Federation starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D). Played by Patrick Stewart, Picard has appeared in...
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