Wednesday, December 07, 2011

This Day in History: December 7

To gather the scattered fleet, which returned ship by ship to the West Indies, was hopeless. D Estaing stood for France, meeting the "Provence," which gave him an anchor, and on December 7, 1779, reached Brest. [More]
Also, a young man received some disturbing news on his 20th birthday that would end up sending him to Guam, his brother to Guadalcanal... Happy 91st birthday to my father.

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