"AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" -Origins of U.S. Navy, Marines, & Coast Guard

American Minute ^ | August 4, 2019 | Bill Federer

[Perseverando]

In June of 1775, citizens acting as merchant mariners captured the British schooner HMS Margaretta around Machias, Massachusetts (present-day Maine).

That same month, General George Washington, with the help of merchant ship owner Colonel John Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts, chartered and outfitted several ships to interrupt the British supplies.

The marker at the base of John Glover's statue in Boston states:

"John Glover of Marblehead - A Soldier of the Revolution.

He commanded a regiment of one thousand men raised in that town known as the marine regiment, and enlisted to serve throughout the war.

He joined the camp at Cambridge, June 22, 1775, and rendered distinguished service in transporting the army."

On September 2, 1775, George Washington personally financed America's first armed naval vessel, the USS Hannah, named for John Glover's daughter.

Less than a week later, on September 7, 1775, the USS Hannah captured the British ship HMS Unity, the first prize taken by a U.S. naval vessel.

Other ships were outfitted by John Glover:

Franklin, Warren, Hancock, and Lee.

 These ships had crews mostly of experienced Massachusetts fisherman who defended American ports and raided British ships transporting ammunition and supplies.

This original American flotilla, sometimes referred to as Washington's fleet, captured 55 British ships.

The American schooner Lee captured the British brig HMS Nancy on November 29, 1775, with its cargo of 2,000 Brown Bess muskets, 100,000 flints, 30,000 of artillery ammunition, 30 tons of musket ammunition, and a 13 inch brass mortar.

This was a tremendous benefit to the new Continental Army stationed near Boston.

After the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, August 27, 1776, John Glover and his Marblehead fisherman saved the day by evacuating Washington and the entire Continental Army, under cover of fog,

[Perseverando]

Time for another American history lesson from American Minute.

Interesting info on Arab slavery in Africa about halfway through the article.

Snip:

A 19th century account of the Arab-African slave trade was given by missionary David Livingstone.

"We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through the body and lying on the path ... an Arab who passed early that morning had done it in anger at losing the price he had given for her, because she was unable to walk any longer.

... We passed a woman tied by the neck to a tree and dead ... We came upon a man dead from starvation ...

The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves."

David Livingstone estimated that each year over 80,000 Africans died before reaching the Muslim slave markets, writing to the editor of the New York Herald:

"If my disclosures regarding the terrible Ujijian slavery should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together."

[HighSierra5]

We need to appeal to heaven now more than ever.

[Ezekiel]

Thanks for posting this. Lots of great info esp. when looking further into the Pine Tree, the flag and symbolism.

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Where there lies no appeal on earth ... they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven ...

Where there is no judicature (justice) on earth, to decide controversies amongst men, God in heaven is judge. He alone, it is true, is judge of the right ...

So in this ... he should appeal to the Supreme Judge."

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Din Shamayim: Law of Heaven

What's in a name..

[definitelynotaliberal]

Thank you for posting this article and also for your comments on David Livingstone.

[Clutch Martin]

“Origins of U.S. Navy, Marines, & Coast Guard”

The Coast Guard was founded on the 28th ofJanuary 1915 when they Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, and the Lifesaving Service all merged and became what we currently know as the United States Coast Guard.

So has the Coast Guard been around since 1790 as they claim? Well part of what is now termed as the Coast Guard did in fact become established in 1790. But that doesn’t really make the Coast Guard that old because officially the Coast Guard became known as the Coast Guard in 1915.

On the 4th of August 1790 what the article is referring to is the establishment as the Revenue Cutter Service not the Coast Guard.

Every year on August 4th the Coast Guard celebrates or acknowledges is that it is Coast Guard day, actually it is Revenue Cutter Service day, and Coast Guard day is January 28th but January 28th is not celebrated or acknowledged as Coast Guard day even though historically, it should be.

[Faith65]

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