Letters to Ella Crowley, 1882-1914.

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Letters to Ella Crowley, 1882-1914.

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Describes his regiment's eagerness to go to the front during the Spanish-American War and the serious damage by "friendly fire" to a vessel unaware of curfew regulations at the harbor in Portland, Maine; includes a postcard postmarked 1907 picturing the Lusitania.

26 items ; 27 x 20 cm. or smaller.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Connecticut Infantry. 1st Regiment.

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Lusitania (Steamship)

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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland; 1,198 passengers and crew died. The Cunard Line launched Lusitania in 1906. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on May 1, 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. On the afternoon of May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania inside the declared war zone. A second, unexplained, internal explosion, probably that of munitions she was carrying, ...

Crowley, Ella Roseada Wilcox, 1872-1957.

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Wilcox, Harry Edgerton, 1861-1934.

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