1775 - Force under Ethan Allan and Benedict Arnold cross Lake
Champlain and capture British fort at Ticonderoga, New York.
1800 - USS Constitution captures Letter of Marque Sandwich. 1862
- Confederates destroy Norfolk and Pensacola Navy Yards. 1949 -
First shipboard launching of LARK, guided missile by USS Norton
Sound. 1960 - USS Triton (SSRN-586) completes submerged
circumnavigation of world in 84 days following many of the
routes taken by Magellan and cruising 46,000 miles. 1862 - CSS
Virginia blown up by Confederates to prevent capture. 1898 -
Sailors and Marines from USS Marblehead cut trans-oceanic cable
near Cienfuegos, Cuba, isolating Cuba from Spain. 1943 - Naval
task force lands Army troops on Attu, Aleutians. 1965 - U.S.
destroyers deliver first shore bombardment of Vietnam War. 1780
- Fall of Charleston, SC; three Continental Navy frigates
(Boston, Providence, and Ranger) captured; and one American
frigate (Queen of France) sunk to prevent capture 1846 - U.S.
declares war against Mexico 1975 - SS