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The gunboat ‘Philadelphia’ lasted one day in battle. It’s still telling us about the Revolution 250 years later
In the summer of 1776, when the 56 delegates of the Thirteen Colonies signed the United States’ Declaration of Independence, construction was already underway on eight gunboats, part of a planned ...
To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, the gunboat USS Philadelphia sank in the ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open “The Gunboat Philadelphia Preservation Project” Aug. 22, a new exhibition where visitors can follow the multiyear effort to preserve the ...
The wooden boat known as the Philadelphia only fought one battle before it sank into the chilly waters of Lake Champlain. It sat there for 159 years undisturbed, until an amateur archaeologist raised ...
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