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Re: Factions (and violence)
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:27:21 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > But the real reason for the reply: The USS Constitution wasn't around in the
> > Revolutionary War. It made its name during the War of 1812. :-)
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> Well, its name as we think of it now, but its first combat actions
> were against French warships during the "undeclared" war of 1799-1800.
> Those Humphreys frigates were (are) mighty nifty!
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> But at any rate, the kit was 398, USS Constellation, not the USS
> Constitution. It's worth noting that the frigate USS Constellation
> does *not* exist (it was broken up in the 1850s)--the Constellation
> that's afloat today is a sloop of 20-some guns that dates from a
> later period.
Or so you and Howard I. Chapelle claim ;)
The real question is whether a 398 Constellation, restored by LEGO Direct and
offered as kit 10004, sould be named U.S.S. Constellation.
--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
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