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  • Marines and Sailors Versus Pirates: The Quallah Battoo Expedition [16:11]

    07/17/2026 11:16:28 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    YouTube ^ | October 25, 2024 | The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
    In 1832 president Andrew Jackson deemed it of very high importance that the people of Quallah Battoo knew who America was. The result was one of the US Navy’s least known military escapades, when sailors and marines fought Sumatran pirates. Because, don’t all good stories involve pirates? Marines and Sailors Versus Pirates: The Quallah Battoo Expedition | 16:11 The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered 151,217 views | October 25, 2024
  • Park Volunteer Outraged over Vandalism of Philadelphia Abolitionist Statue: ‘He Was BLM Before There Was A Slogan’

    06/12/2020 11:00:12 PM PDT · by Brown Deer · 33 replies
    National Review ^ | June 11, 2020 | ZACHARY EVANS
    Protesters have defaced a statue of Philadelphia abolitionist Matthias Baldwin, dousing it with paint and spray-painting the word “colonizer” on the pedestal. It was not immediately clear if the protesters were part of an organized group such as Antifa. The graffiti has since been cleaned off the statue, as Joe Walsh, a member of the Friends of Matthias Baldwin Park, told National Review in an email. The statue itself stands outside Philadelphia City Hall. The statue was vandalized at some point during the days of demonstrations that occurred in Philadelphia, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office said in an email....
  • Comparing the 1790 and 1795 Naturalization Acts

    01/09/2016 10:58:04 AM PST · by sunrise_sunset · 109 replies
    Indiana University ^ | 1790, 1795 | US Congress
    1790 Naturalization Act: "..And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens..." 1795 Naturalization Act: "...the children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States..."