{"id":68416,"date":"2016-10-13T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68416"},"modified":"2016-10-13T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:18:21","slug":"happy-birthday-navy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68416","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68417\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68417\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Navy-Birthday-October-13-2-1024x512-500x250.jpg\" alt=\"Navy-Birthday-October-13-2-1024x512\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Navy-Birthday-October-13-2-1024x512-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Navy-Birthday-October-13-2-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Navy-Birthday-October-13-2-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Navy-Birthday-October-13-2-1024x512-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Navy-Birthday-October-13-2-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the 241st birthday of the US Navy when the Continental Congress decided it needed a force to protect the harbors and defend the coasts of the new nation on October 13th, 1775. The first warships were built at Whitehall, New York on October 11th, 1776 under the direction of Benedict Arnold for an assault up Lake Champlain. Arnold built 16 ships and confronted the British at Valcour Island, New York where he delayed the British long enough that they abandoned their plans to invade the colonies from Canada for a year.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/10\/13\/us-navy-celebrates-241st-birthday.html\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Oct. 13, 1775, the Continental Congress established an official naval force, hoping a small fleet of boats would be able to offset the seemingly intractable sea power of the British.<\/p>\n<p>The early Navy was not formed to wrest control of the seas from Britain, but instead to wage tactical raids against the transports that supplied British forces in North America. The Continental Congress subsequently purchased, converted, and built a fleet of small ships that included brigs, sloops, and schooners.<\/p>\n<p>These navy ships sailed alone or in pairs, hunting British commerce ships and transports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Navy was disbanded after the Revolution, relying on the Revenue Cutter Service (the Coast Guard) for damper security but the Navy was reestablished in 1794 in response to the Barbary pirates, half a world away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 241st birthday of the US Navy when the Continental Congress decided it needed &hellip; <a title=\"Happy Birthday, Navy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68416\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday, Navy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}