19FortyFive: 162 Years Later, Admiral Farragut's Order at Mobile Bay Is Still the Boldest Thing Any US Navy Officer Ever Said
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David Farragut
David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered in U.S. Navy tradition for his bold order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually abbreviated to "Damn the torpedoes ... full speed ahead."
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politics · United States Navy admiral (1801–1870) · military officer · admiral · politician · also David Farragut, David G. Farragut, David Glasgoe Farragut, D. G. Farragut, David Glasgow Farragut, Farragut
Born 5 July 1801 · Died 14 August 1870 · Q315607
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To move busts of Admiral Farragut, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Admiral Albert Gleaves from the Tennessee Capitol to the Tennessee State Museum
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2021· 1 entry
To move busts of Admiral Farragut, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Admiral Albert Gleaves from the Tennessee Capitol to the Tennessee State Museum
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2016· 1 entry
Marine Link: David Farragut News
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1966· 1 entry
The state of Idaho turned the land into Farragut State Park
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1933· 1 entry
As an all-boys military boarding high school located in St
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1870· 1 entry
Died 1870-08-14.
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1864· 2 entries
Lincoln promoted Farragut to vice admiral, which made him the senior ranking officer in the United States Navy
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Farragut won a great victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay
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1863· 1 entry
Leaving Port Hudson as the last remaining Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
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1862· 1 entry
To command the Gulf Blockading Squadron, sailing from Hampton Roads on the screw steamer USS Hartford, bearing 25 guns, which he made his flagship, accompanied by a fleet of 17 ships
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1854· 1 entry
Commander Farragut arrived to oversee the building of the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, which became the port for ship repairs on the West Coast
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1848· 2 entries
Farragut took the ship out of Pensacola bound for New York City, arriving there on February 19
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Disembarked all of her seriously sick patients at the base hospital, and replenished her stores
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1847· 3 entries
Farragut and Saratoga returned to blockade duty off Tuxpan, remaining there for two months despite a yellow fever outbreak on board
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Bound for the Gulf of Mexico under Farragut's command and upon arriving off Veracruz, Mexico, on April 26, 1847, reported to the squadron's commander, Commodore Matthew C
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Farragut, now a commander, took command of the sloop-of-war USS Saratoga when she was recommissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia
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1843· 2 entries
With whom he had one surviving son named Loyall Farragut, born October 12, 1844
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He married Virginia Dorcas Loyall on December 26, 1843, with whom he had one surviving son named Loyall Farragut, born October 12, 1844.
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1824· 1 entry
Following an initial cruise as acting lieutenant commanding USS Ferret
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1823· 3 entries
The fleet set sail for the West Indies where, for the next six months, they would drive the pirates off the sea, and rout them from their hiding places in among the islands
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Farragut was placed in command of USS Ferret, which was his first command of a U
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At age 22, and went on to participate in anti-piracy operations in the Caribbean Sea
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1812· 2 entries
Helped to establish America's first naval base and colony in the Pacific, named Fort Madison, during the ill-fated Nuku Hiva Campaign in the Marquesas Islands
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Adopted the name "David" in honor of his foster father, with whom he went to sea late in 1810
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1808· 1 entry
After his mother's death, James agreed to live with United States Navy officer David Porter, whose father had served with George Farragut during the Revolution
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1801· 2 entries
Born 1801-07-05.
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To George Farragut (born Jorge 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 Am
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