To: SeanOGuano
IT was not. Most likely for the Boxer Rebellion? But it is kind of funny to have Boxer and Halyburton working together.
To: rabidralph
But it is kind of funny to have Boxer and Halyburton working together.
Not as funny (sad, pathetic sense) as the USS Bainbridge having been the first USN ship to arrive on scene.
Bainbridge played a not-insignificant role in the Barbary Wars. First by being humiliated by the Dey of Algiers upon being the person responsible for delivering the US's first "tribute" payment ... THEN by getting his command (USS Philadelphia) captured by the Barbary Corsairs.
I'm sure there were folks cringing in the Pentagon when they figured out that Bainbridge was the closest ship to the situation ... as opposed to the Preble or Decatur.
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