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  2. David Farragut - Wikipedia

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    Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. [9]

  3. Life writing - Wikipedia

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    Life writing is an expansive genre that primarily deals with the purposeful recording of personal memories, experiences, opinions, and emotions for different ends. While what actually constitutes life writing has been up for debate throughout history, it has often been defined through the lens of the history of the autobiography genre as well as the concept of the self as it arises in writing.

  4. Life story work - Wikipedia

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    Life story work as a concept has dated back to at least the 1960s, possibly further. [1] The application of the concept to children in foster care and adoption was discussed in academia from the early 1980s onward. [2] Life story work is well documented in the UK and Australia [3] and has been incorporated into UK Adoption legislation. More ...

  5. Damn the torpedoes - Wikipedia

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    A quotation attributed to David Farragut, referring to an order given at the Battle of Mobile Bay; Damn the Torpedoes, a 1979 album by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Damn the Torpedoes, a 1971 book by J. E. Macdonnell; Damn the Torpedoes: Naval Incidents of the Civil War, a 1989 book by the son of Adolph A. Hoehling (homonym.)

  6. John C. Waugh - Wikipedia

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    Synopsis: The story of the men of the West Point class of 1846, the most distinguished of the antebellum years — as cadets at the academy, field officers in the Mexican and Indian Wars, and generals in the Civil War. Warner Books, 1994. Cloth ISBN 0-446-51594-9. Ballantine Books, 1999. Paper ISBN 0-345-43403-X. Unabridged recording at ...

  7. Battle of Mobile Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War in which a Union fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay: Morgan, Gaines and Powell.

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  9. Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip - Wikipedia

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    The second was not so easily dismissed; part of Farragut's fleet was a semi-autonomous group of mortar schooners, headed by his foster brother David D. Porter. Porter was a master of intrigue who had the ear of Assistant Secretary Fox, and Farragut had to let the mortars be tried, despite his strong personal belief that they would prove worthless.