United States Navy collection, 1899-1933.

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United States Navy collection, 1899-1933.

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Report (1899) of a tour of the Philippine Islands, headed by Jacob G. Schurman, president of the Philippine Commission; speech (circa 1903) by an inhabitant of Tutuila, American Samoa, to officers of the U.S. Navy requesting the return of Benjamin F. Tilley to be their governor; letter (1920) of a veteran of the Confederate Army recalling capture and subsequent treatment of Confederate soldiers by U.S. Navy and U.S. Army parties; list (1933) of Benedict Arnold's squadron compiled by Howard Irving Chapelle; letter (undated) to Thomas Shock, U.S. Naval engineer; and book of orders for unknown ship (undated).

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Chapelle, Howard Irving.

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United States. Philippine Commission (1899-1900)

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Tilley, Benjamin Franklin, 1848-1907.

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Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942

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Jacob Gould Schurman was born May 22, 1854 on Prince Edward Island. He was Professor of Philosophy at Acadia College and Dalhousie College; Cornell University's Sage Professor of Philosophy, 1886-92, and President, 1892-1920; President of the first U.S. Philippine Commission, 1899; U.S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro during the Balkan Wars; and was a diplomat involved with foreign policy making in China, the Far East, and Germany. From the description of Jacob Gould Schurman paper...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801

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Revolutionary patriot, Continental Army general, and traitor. From the description of Benedict Arnold papers, 1761-1794. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 432702702 Prior to the U.S. Revolutionary War Arnold was a merchant and trader in the West Indies. He served in the Revolutionary Army, but defected to the British in 1780 and served until the War was over. He then went to Canada and eventually to England. He was married to Margaret Mansfie...

Shock, Thomas.

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