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The first USS Lafayette was a side wheel steamer, converted to an ironclad ram, in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Lafayette was built at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1848 as Aleck Scott (often spelled Alick Scott). She was purchased by the War Department as Fort Henry on 18 May 1862 for use in the western flotilla.
USS Lafayette (AP-53), was launched as the French-built Normandie and seized from France in 1941. She was partially destroyed by fire during conversion to a troop ship in New York. She was sold to a US scrap merchant and then struck in 1945; USS Lafayette (SSBN-616), was the lead ship of the Lafayette-class submarines, commissioned in 1963, and ...
Allmovie wrote, "the story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen...Orson Welles gives a memorable performance as Benjamin Franklin"; [4] while TV Guide found "the picture is weighed down by its need for spectacle, and displays little grace in its presentation.
The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War. Gettysburg (broadcast on History ...
Charles Ellet Jr. created and led the U.S. Ram Fleet until his death due to a wound received at the First Battle of Memphis Charles Ellet Jr. was a well-known civil engineer who built the first ever suspension bridge in the United States across the Schuykill River in Philadelphia and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time, across the Ohio River ...
Hearts in Bondage is a 1936 American black-and-white war drama film directed by Lew Ayres for Republic Pictures.Set during the American Civil War, the film depicts the Union Navy's deliberate sinking of USS Merrimack, the Confederate States Navy's salvage and refitting of the ship as the ironclad CSS Virginia, the Union Navy's development of the ironclad USS Monitor to counter Virginia, and ...
A politically charged new thriller in theaters now, Civil War is a film that's been courting some controversy since its South by Southwest premiere in March 2024.From writer-director Alex Garland ...
Early in April, Saboteur was "redflagged" by officials in the War Office who had concerns about the scene involving the SS Normandie (renamed USS Lafayette). Regarding this scene, Hitchcock said: "the Navy raised hell with Universal about these shots because I implied that the Normandie had been sabotaged, which was a reflection on their lack ...