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To: jpsb

you must have went to PUBLIC FOOL SCHOOL.

Read this article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Texas_Navy

Here you will find the details about the US navy ship seized by Texicans for running guns to Mexico to fight against Texians.


20 posted on 08/14/2012 12:09:57 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: BereanBrain
I read your link, (maybe you should as well) and it says nothing about the Texans capturing a UN Navy ship. They did capture a couple of American merchant ships that were running guns to Mexico. They did not capture any US Navy ships, nor was the US Navy or government supporting the Mexicans. It was quite the opposite in fact.

Liberty captured the American brig Durango shortly thereafter and it too was found to be carrying Mexican Army supplies. Around the same time, Captain Jeremiah Brown in the Invincible took the American brig Pocket at the mouth of the Rio Grande, she was carrying contraband as well but her owners informed the United States Navy.[4]

Subsequently, the American Commodore Alexander J. Dallas arrested Captain Brown and his crew for piracy when they sailed into New Orleans that May for provisioning. The charges were eventually dropped on the account that all of the seized American ships carried Mexican military stores but a civil suit remained in litigation for years afterward.


22 posted on 08/14/2012 12:40:58 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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