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SUMMARY:US Navy (USN) Birthday
DESCRIPTION:US Navy (USN) Birthday\nClick here to view businesses owned by U.S. Navy Veterans (and active duty/reservists)\nClick here to view USN military quotes\nClick here to view famous veterans\nClick here to view the history of the USN and anniversaries\nOn Friday\, October 13\, 1775\, meeting in Philadelphia\, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels\, armed with ten carriage guns\, as well as swivel guns\, and manned by crews of eighty\, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy.\nTo understand the momentous significance of the decision to send two armed vessels to sea under the authority of the Continental Congress\, we need to review the strategic situation in which it was made and to consider the political struggle that lay behind it. \nAmericans first took up arms in the spring of 1775\, not to sever their relationship with the king\, but to defend their rights within the British Empire. By the autumn of 1775\, the British North American colonies from Maine to Georgia were in open rebellion. Royal governments had been thrust out of many colonial capitals and revolutionary governments put in their places. The Continental Congress had assumed some of the responsibilities of a central government for the colonies\, created a Continental Army\, issued paper money for the support of the troops\, and formed a committee to negotiate with foreign countries. Continental forces captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain and launched an invasion of Canada. \nIn October 1775 the British held superiority at sea\, from which they threatened to stop up the colonies’ trade and to wreak destruction on seaside settlements. In response\, a few of the states had commissioned small fleets of their own for defense of local waters. Congress had not yet authorized privateering. Some in Congress worried about pushing the armed struggle too far\, hoping that reconciliation with the mother country was still possible. \nYet\, a small coterie of men in Congress had been advocating a Continental Navy from the outset of armed hostilities. Foremost among these men was John Adams\, of Massachusetts. For months\, he and a few others had been agitating in Congress for the establishment of an American fleet. They argued that a fleet would defend the seacoast towns\, protect vital trade\, retaliate against British raiders\, and make it possible to seek out among neutral nations of the world the arms and stores that would make resistance possible. \nStill\, the establishment of a navy seemed too bold a move for some of the timid men in Congress. Some southerners agreed that a fleet would protect and secure the trade of New England but denied that it would that of the southern colonies. Most of the delegates did not consider the break with England as final and feared that a navy implied sovereignty and independence. Others thought a navy a hasty and foolish challenge to the mightiest fleet the world had seen. The most the pro-navy men could do was to get Congress to urge each colony to fit out armed vessels for the protection of their coasts and harbors. \n\n \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \nThen\, on 3 October\, Rhode Island’s delegates laid before Congress a bold resolution for the building and equipping of an American fleet\, as soon as possible. When the motion came to the floor for debate\, Samuel Chase\, of Maryland\, attacked it\, saying it was “the maddest Idea in the World to think of building an American Fleet.” Even pro-navy members found the proposal too vague. It lacked specifics and no one could tell how much it would cost. \nIf Congress was yet unwilling to embrace the idea of establishing a navy as a permanent measure\, it could be tempted by short-term opportunities. Fortuitously\, on 5 October\, Congress received intelligence of two English brigs\, unarmed and without convoy\, laden with munitions\, leaving England bound for Quebec. Congress immediately appointed a committee to consider how to take advantage of this opportunity. Its members were all New Englanders and all ardent supporters of a navy. They recommended first that the governments of Massachusetts\, Rhode Island\, and Connecticut be asked to dispatch armed vessels to lay in wait to intercept the munitions ships; next they outlined a plan for the equipping by Congress of two armed vessels to cruise to the eastward to intercept any ships bearing supplies to the British army. Congress let this plan lie on the table until 13 October\, when another fortuitous event occurred in favor of the naval movement. A letter from General Washington was read in Congress in which he reported that he had taken under his command\, at Continental expense\, three schooners to cruise off Massachusetts to intercept enemy supply ships. The commander in chief had preempted members of Congress reluctant to take the first step of fitting out warships under Continental authority. Since they already had armed vessels cruising in their name\, it was not such a big step to approve two more. The committee’s proposal\, now appearing eminently reasonable to the reluctant members\, was adopted. \nThe Continental Navy grew into an important force. Within a few days\, Congress established a Naval Committee charged with equipping a fleet. This committee directed the purchasing\, outfitting\, manning\, and operations of the first ships of the new navy\, drafted subsequent naval legislation\, and prepared rules and regulations to govern the Continental Navy’s conduct and internal administration. \nOver the course of the War of Independence\, the Continental Navy sent to sea more than fifty armed vessels of various types. The navy’s squadrons and cruisers seized enemy supplies and carried correspondence and diplomats to Europe\, returning with needed munitions. They took nearly 200 British vessels as prizes\, some off the British Isles themselves\, contributing to the demoralization of the enemy and forcing the British to divert warships to protect convoys and trade routes. In addition\, the navy provoked diplomatic crises that helped bring France into the war against Great Britain. The Continental Navy began the proud tradition carried on today by our United States Navy\, and whose birthday we celebrate each year in October. \n\nThe word “weigh” in this sense comes from the archaic word meaning to heave\, hoist or raise. “Aweigh” means that that action has been completed. The anchor is aweigh when it is pulled from the bottom. This event is duly noted in the ship’s log. \nHistory \nLieut. Charles A. Zimmermann\, USN\, a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore\, had been selected as the bandmaster of the Naval Academy Band in 1887 at the age of 26. His father\, Charles Z. Zimmermann\, had played in the band during the Civil War years. Early in his career\, Lieut. Zimmermann started the practice of composing a march for each graduating class. By 1892\, “Zimmy”\, as he was affectionately known by the midshipmen\, became so popular that he was presented with a gold medal by that year’s class. More gold medals followed as Zimmermann wrote a march for each succeeding class \nIn 1906\, Lieut. Zimmerman was approached by Midshipman First Class Alfred Hart Miles with a request for a new march. As a member of the Class of 1907\, Miles and his classmates “were eager to have a piece of music that would be inspiring\, one with a swing to it so it could be used as a football marching song\, and one that would live forever.” \nSupposedly\, with the two men seated at the Naval Academy Chapel organ\, Zimmermann composed the tune and Miles set the title and wrote to two first stanzas in November 1906. This march was played by the band and sung by the brigade at the 1906 Army-Navy football game later that month\, and for the first time in several seasons\, Navy won. This march\, Anchors Aweigh\, was subsequently dedicated to the Academy Class of 1907 and adopted as the official song of the U.S. Navy. The concluding stanza was written by Midshipman Royal Lovell\, Class of 1926. \nOriginal Lyrics \n[Verse 1]\nStand Navy down the field\, sails set to the sky.\nWe’ll never change our course\, so Army you steer shy-y-y-y.\nRoll up the score\, Navy\, Anchors Aweigh.\nSail Navy down the field and sink the Army\, sink the Army Grey. \n[Verse 2]\nGet underway\, Navy\, Decks cleared for the fray\,\nWe’ll hoist true Navy Blue So Army down your Grey-y-y-y.\nFull speed ahead\, Navy; Army heave to\,\nFurl Black and Grey and Gold and hoist the Navy\, hoist the Navy Blue \n[Verse 3]\nBlue of the Seven Seas; Gold of God’s great sun\nLet these our colors be Till all of time be done-n-n-ne\,\nBy Severn shore we learn Navy’s stern call:\nFaith\, courage\, service true With honor over\, honor over all.\nGold of God’s great sun.\nLet these our colors be\nTill all of time be done\, done\, done\, done.\nOn seven seas we learn\nNavy’s stern call:\nFaith\, courage\, service true\,\nWith honor\, over honor\, over all. \nClick here to see a full list of military holidays\, birthdays\, anniversaries and observances!
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SUMMARY:US Navy (USN) Birthday
DESCRIPTION:US Navy (USN) Birthday\nClick here to view businesses owned by U.S. Navy Veterans (and active duty/reservists)\nClick here to view USN military quotes\nClick here to view famous veterans\nClick here to view the history of the USN and anniversaries\nOn Friday\, October 13\, 1775\, meeting in Philadelphia\, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels\, armed with ten carriage guns\, as well as swivel guns\, and manned by crews of eighty\, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy.\nTo understand the momentous significance of the decision to send two armed vessels to sea under the authority of the Continental Congress\, we need to review the strategic situation in which it was made and to consider the political struggle that lay behind it. \nAmericans first took up arms in the spring of 1775\, not to sever their relationship with the king\, but to defend their rights within the British Empire. By the autumn of 1775\, the British North American colonies from Maine to Georgia were in open rebellion. Royal governments had been thrust out of many colonial capitals and revolutionary governments put in their places. The Continental Congress had assumed some of the responsibilities of a central government for the colonies\, created a Continental Army\, issued paper money for the support of the troops\, and formed a committee to negotiate with foreign countries. Continental forces captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain and launched an invasion of Canada. \nIn October 1775 the British held superiority at sea\, from which they threatened to stop up the colonies’ trade and to wreak destruction on seaside settlements. In response\, a few of the states had commissioned small fleets of their own for defense of local waters. Congress had not yet authorized privateering. Some in Congress worried about pushing the armed struggle too far\, hoping that reconciliation with the mother country was still possible. \nYet\, a small coterie of men in Congress had been advocating a Continental Navy from the outset of armed hostilities. Foremost among these men was John Adams\, of Massachusetts. For months\, he and a few others had been agitating in Congress for the establishment of an American fleet. They argued that a fleet would defend the seacoast towns\, protect vital trade\, retaliate against British raiders\, and make it possible to seek out among neutral nations of the world the arms and stores that would make resistance possible. \nStill\, the establishment of a navy seemed too bold a move for some of the timid men in Congress. Some southerners agreed that a fleet would protect and secure the trade of New England but denied that it would that of the southern colonies. Most of the delegates did not consider the break with England as final and feared that a navy implied sovereignty and independence. Others thought a navy a hasty and foolish challenge to the mightiest fleet the world had seen. The most the pro-navy men could do was to get Congress to urge each colony to fit out armed vessels for the protection of their coasts and harbors. \n\n\n\n \nThen\, on 3 October\, Rhode Island’s delegates laid before Congress a bold resolution for the building and equipping of an American fleet\, as soon as possible. When the motion came to the floor for debate\, Samuel Chase\, of Maryland\, attacked it\, saying it was “the maddest Idea in the World to think of building an American Fleet.” Even pro-navy members found the proposal too vague. It lacked specifics and no one could tell how much it would cost. \nIf Congress was yet unwilling to embrace the idea of establishing a navy as a permanent measure\, it could be tempted by short-term opportunities. Fortuitously\, on 5 October\, Congress received intelligence of two English brigs\, unarmed and without convoy\, laden with munitions\, leaving England bound for Quebec. Congress immediately appointed a committee to consider how to take advantage of this opportunity. Its members were all New Englanders and all ardent supporters of a navy. They recommended first that the governments of Massachusetts\, Rhode Island\, and Connecticut be asked to dispatch armed vessels to lay in wait to intercept the munitions ships; next they outlined a plan for the equipping by Congress of two armed vessels to cruise to the eastward to intercept any ships bearing supplies to the British army. Congress let this plan lie on the table until 13 October\, when another fortuitous event occurred in favor of the naval movement. A letter from General Washington was read in Congress in which he reported that he had taken under his command\, at Continental expense\, three schooners to cruise off Massachusetts to intercept enemy supply ships. The commander in chief had preempted members of Congress reluctant to take the first step of fitting out warships under Continental authority. Since they already had armed vessels cruising in their name\, it was not such a big step to approve two more. The committee’s proposal\, now appearing eminently reasonable to the reluctant members\, was adopted. \nThe Continental Navy grew into an important force. Within a few days\, Congress established a Naval Committee charged with equipping a fleet. This committee directed the purchasing\, outfitting\, manning\, and operations of the first ships of the new navy\, drafted subsequent naval legislation\, and prepared rules and regulations to govern the Continental Navy’s conduct and internal administration. \nOver the course of the War of Independence\, the Continental Navy sent to sea more than fifty armed vessels of various types. The navy’s squadrons and cruisers seized enemy supplies and carried correspondence and diplomats to Europe\, returning with needed munitions. They took nearly 200 British vessels as prizes\, some off the British Isles themselves\, contributing to the demoralization of the enemy and forcing the British to divert warships to protect convoys and trade routes. In addition\, the navy provoked diplomatic crises that helped bring France into the war against Great Britain. The Continental Navy began the proud tradition carried on today by our United States Navy\, and whose birthday we celebrate each year in October. \n\nThe word “weigh” in this sense comes from the archaic word meaning to heave\, hoist or raise. “Aweigh” means that that action has been completed. The anchor is aweigh when it is pulled from the bottom. This event is duly noted in the ship’s log. \nHistory \nLieut. Charles A. Zimmermann\, USN\, a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore\, had been selected as the bandmaster of the Naval Academy Band in 1887 at the age of 26. His father\, Charles Z. Zimmermann\, had played in the band during the Civil War years. Early in his career\, Lieut. Zimmermann started the practice of composing a march for each graduating class. By 1892\, “Zimmy”\, as he was affectionately known by the midshipmen\, became so popular that he was presented with a gold medal by that year’s class. More gold medals followed as Zimmermann wrote a march for each succeeding class \nIn 1906\, Lieut. Zimmerman was approached by Midshipman First Class Alfred Hart Miles with a request for a new march. As a member of the Class of 1907\, Miles and his classmates “were eager to have a piece of music that would be inspiring\, one with a swing to it so it could be used as a football marching song\, and one that would live forever.” \nSupposedly\, with the two men seated at the Naval Academy Chapel organ\, Zimmermann composed the tune and Miles set the title and wrote to two first stanzas in November 1906. This march was played by the band and sung by the brigade at the 1906 Army-Navy football game later that month\, and for the first time in several seasons\, Navy won. This march\, Anchors Aweigh\, was subsequently dedicated to the Academy Class of 1907 and adopted as the official song of the U.S. Navy. The concluding stanza was written by Midshipman Royal Lovell\, Class of 1926. \nOriginal Lyrics \n[Verse 1]\nStand Navy down the field\, sails set to the sky.\nWe’ll never change our course\, so Army you steer shy-y-y-y.\nRoll up the score\, Navy\, Anchors Aweigh.\nSail Navy down the field and sink the Army\, sink the Army Grey. \n[Verse 2]\nGet underway\, Navy\, Decks cleared for the fray\,\nWe’ll hoist true Navy Blue So Army down your Grey-y-y-y.\nFull speed ahead\, Navy; Army heave to\,\nFurl Black and Grey and Gold and hoist the Navy\, hoist the Navy Blue \n[Verse 3]\nBlue of the Seven Seas; Gold of God’s great sun\nLet these our colors be Till all of time be done-n-n-ne\,\nBy Severn shore we learn Navy’s stern call:\nFaith\, courage\, service true With honor over\, honor over all.\nGold of God’s great sun.\nLet these our colors be\nTill all of time be done\, done\, done\, done.\nOn seven seas we learn\nNavy’s stern call:\nFaith\, courage\, service true\,\nWith honor\, over honor\, over all. \nClick here to see a full list of military holidays\, birthdays\, anniversaries and observances!
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SUMMARY:US Navy (USN) Birthday
DESCRIPTION:US Navy (USN) Birthday\nClick here to view businesses owned by U.S. Navy Veterans (and active duty/reservists)\nClick here to view USN military quotes\nClick here to view famous veterans\nClick here to view the history of the USN and anniversaries\nOn Friday\, October 13\, 1775\, meeting in Philadelphia\, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels\, armed with ten carriage guns\, as well as swivel guns\, and manned by crews of eighty\, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy.\nTo understand the momentous significance of the decision to send two armed vessels to sea under the authority of the Continental Congress\, we need to review the strategic situation in which it was made and to consider the political struggle that lay behind it. \nAmericans first took up arms in the spring of 1775\, not to sever their relationship with the king\, but to defend their rights within the British Empire. By the autumn of 1775\, the British North American colonies from Maine to Georgia were in open rebellion. Royal governments had been thrust out of many colonial capitals and revolutionary governments put in their places. The Continental Congress had assumed some of the responsibilities of a central government for the colonies\, created a Continental Army\, issued paper money for the support of the troops\, and formed a committee to negotiate with foreign countries. Continental forces captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain and launched an invasion of Canada. \nIn October 1775 the British held superiority at sea\, from which they threatened to stop up the colonies’ trade and to wreak destruction on seaside settlements. In response\, a few of the states had commissioned small fleets of their own for defense of local waters. Congress had not yet authorized privateering. Some in Congress worried about pushing the armed struggle too far\, hoping that reconciliation with the mother country was still possible. \nYet\, a small coterie of men in Congress had been advocating a Continental Navy from the outset of armed hostilities. Foremost among these men was John Adams\, of Massachusetts. For months\, he and a few others had been agitating in Congress for the establishment of an American fleet. They argued that a fleet would defend the seacoast towns\, protect vital trade\, retaliate against British raiders\, and make it possible to seek out among neutral nations of the world the arms and stores that would make resistance possible. \nStill\, the establishment of a navy seemed too bold a move for some of the timid men in Congress. Some southerners agreed that a fleet would protect and secure the trade of New England but denied that it would that of the southern colonies. Most of the delegates did not consider the break with England as final and feared that a navy implied sovereignty and independence. Others thought a navy a hasty and foolish challenge to the mightiest fleet the world had seen. The most the pro-navy men could do was to get Congress to urge each colony to fit out armed vessels for the protection of their coasts and harbors. \n\n\n\n \nThen\, on 3 October\, Rhode Island’s delegates laid before Congress a bold resolution for the building and equipping of an American fleet\, as soon as possible. When the motion came to the floor for debate\, Samuel Chase\, of Maryland\, attacked it\, saying it was “the maddest Idea in the World to think of building an American Fleet.” Even pro-navy members found the proposal too vague. It lacked specifics and no one could tell how much it would cost. \nIf Congress was yet unwilling to embrace the idea of establishing a navy as a permanent measure\, it could be tempted by short-term opportunities. Fortuitously\, on 5 October\, Congress received intelligence of two English brigs\, unarmed and without convoy\, laden with munitions\, leaving England bound for Quebec. Congress immediately appointed a committee to consider how to take advantage of this opportunity. Its members were all New Englanders and all ardent supporters of a navy. They recommended first that the governments of Massachusetts\, Rhode Island\, and Connecticut be asked to dispatch armed vessels to lay in wait to intercept the munitions ships; next they outlined a plan for the equipping by Congress of two armed vessels to cruise to the eastward to intercept any ships bearing supplies to the British army. Congress let this plan lie on the table until 13 October\, when another fortuitous event occurred in favor of the naval movement. A letter from General Washington was read in Congress in which he reported that he had taken under his command\, at Continental expense\, three schooners to cruise off Massachusetts to intercept enemy supply ships. The commander in chief had preempted members of Congress reluctant to take the first step of fitting out warships under Continental authority. Since they already had armed vessels cruising in their name\, it was not such a big step to approve two more. The committee’s proposal\, now appearing eminently reasonable to the reluctant members\, was adopted. \nThe Continental Navy grew into an important force. Within a few days\, Congress established a Naval Committee charged with equipping a fleet. This committee directed the purchasing\, outfitting\, manning\, and operations of the first ships of the new navy\, drafted subsequent naval legislation\, and prepared rules and regulations to govern the Continental Navy’s conduct and internal administration. \nOver the course of the War of Independence\, the Continental Navy sent to sea more than fifty armed vessels of various types. The navy’s squadrons and cruisers seized enemy supplies and carried correspondence and diplomats to Europe\, returning with needed munitions. They took nearly 200 British vessels as prizes\, some off the British Isles themselves\, contributing to the demoralization of the enemy and forcing the British to divert warships to protect convoys and trade routes. In addition\, the navy provoked diplomatic crises that helped bring France into the war against Great Britain. The Continental Navy began the proud tradition carried on today by our United States Navy\, and whose birthday we celebrate each year in October. \n\nThe word “weigh” in this sense comes from the archaic word meaning to heave\, hoist or raise. “Aweigh” means that that action has been completed. The anchor is aweigh when it is pulled from the bottom. This event is duly noted in the ship’s log. \nHistory \nLieut. Charles A. Zimmermann\, USN\, a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore\, had been selected as the bandmaster of the Naval Academy Band in 1887 at the age of 26. His father\, Charles Z. Zimmermann\, had played in the band during the Civil War years. Early in his career\, Lieut. Zimmermann started the practice of composing a march for each graduating class. By 1892\, “Zimmy”\, as he was affectionately known by the midshipmen\, became so popular that he was presented with a gold medal by that year’s class. More gold medals followed as Zimmermann wrote a march for each succeeding class \nIn 1906\, Lieut. Zimmerman was approached by Midshipman First Class Alfred Hart Miles with a request for a new march. As a member of the Class of 1907\, Miles and his classmates “were eager to have a piece of music that would be inspiring\, one with a swing to it so it could be used as a football marching song\, and one that would live forever.” \nSupposedly\, with the two men seated at the Naval Academy Chapel organ\, Zimmermann composed the tune and Miles set the title and wrote to two first stanzas in November 1906. This march was played by the band and sung by the brigade at the 1906 Army-Navy football game later that month\, and for the first time in several seasons\, Navy won. This march\, Anchors Aweigh\, was subsequently dedicated to the Academy Class of 1907 and adopted as the official song of the U.S. Navy. The concluding stanza was written by Midshipman Royal Lovell\, Class of 1926. \nOriginal Lyrics \n[Verse 1]\nStand Navy down the field\, sails set to the sky.\nWe’ll never change our course\, so Army you steer shy-y-y-y.\nRoll up the score\, Navy\, Anchors Aweigh.\nSail Navy down the field and sink the Army\, sink the Army Grey. \n[Verse 2]\nGet underway\, Navy\, Decks cleared for the fray\,\nWe’ll hoist true Navy Blue So Army down your Grey-y-y-y.\nFull speed ahead\, Navy; Army heave to\,\nFurl Black and Grey and Gold and hoist the Navy\, hoist the Navy Blue \n[Verse 3]\nBlue of the Seven Seas; Gold of God’s great sun\nLet these our colors be Till all of time be done-n-n-ne\,\nBy Severn shore we learn Navy’s stern call:\nFaith\, courage\, service true With honor over\, honor over all.\nGold of God’s great sun.\nLet these our colors be\nTill all of time be done\, done\, done\, done.\nOn seven seas we learn\nNavy’s stern call:\nFaith\, courage\, service true\,\nWith honor\, over honor\, over all. \nClick here to see a full list of military holidays\, birthdays\, anniversaries and observances!
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