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To: Homer_J_Simpson

He brings intelligence that Alexandria was captured, on the 6th, by Admiral PORTER, with his own and a portion of Admiral FARRAGUT's fleet.

But did they burn the library...

OK I'll be serious. Alexandria is about 100 miles inland, so how is the Navy capturing it?

4 posted on 05/18/2023 6:10:46 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)

To: chajin

Via the Mississippi and Red Rivers I would think.

5 posted on 05/18/2023 6:31:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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