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Hopkins was an old-fashioned salthorse sailor—an “antique character,” said General Knox—and in the navy’s first expedition, in January 1776, was supposed to take a fleet of four warships into the Chesapeake Bay to ascertain “the Enemie’s Situation and Strength.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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Hopkins was an old-fashioned salthorse sailor—an “antique character,” said General Knox—and in the navy’s first expedition, in January 1776, was supposed to take a fleet of four warships into the Chesapeake Bay to ascertain “the Enemie’s Situation and Strength.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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