Warning: Use of undefined constant WPE_CLUSTER_ID - assumed 'WPE_CLUSTER_ID' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /home/azuse/htdocs/www.azuse.cloud/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpengine-common/plugin.php on line 14

Warning: Use of undefined constant PWP_NAME - assumed 'PWP_NAME' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /home/azuse/htdocs/www.azuse.cloud/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpengine-common/wpe-sec.php on line 63
{"id":75341,"date":"2017-10-13T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75341"},"modified":"2017-10-13T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:35:12","slug":"us-navys-242d-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75341","title":{"rendered":"US Navy’s 242d Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"\"$ <\/center><\/p>\n

MCPO reminds us that on 13 October 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the purchase of two vessels to be armed for a cruise against British merchant ships; this resolution created the Continental Navy and is considered the first establishment of the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n

He also sends this instructional video;<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first major naval engagement of the new country was at Valcour Island in Lake Chaplain on October 11, 1776 when Benedict Arnold faced off with the British fleet and delayed them enough that their plans to take Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point back were delayed for a year. Of course, Arnold’s fleet, which the colonists had spent the entire summer building was completely destroyed in the endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCPO reminds us that on 13 October 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the purchase of two … <a title=\"US Navy’s 242d Birthday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75341\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Navy’s 242d Birthday<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crng03rwiaegusk_med.png?fit=456%2C228&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75341","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=75341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}