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Tagged: US Navy

Offbeat
12:04 am
Thu September 6, 2012

Navy Week sails into Detroit to celebrate War of 1812 bicentennial

Credit US Navy / via ourflagwasstillthere.org
The USS De Wert approaches Detroit.
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The US Navy’s past and present is on display in Detroit this week.

Detroit is just one “Navy Week” stop on a Great Lakes tour commemorating the War of 1812.

The war pitting the newly-independent US against Great Britain was more or less a draw—though it’s seen very differently just across the border in Windsor, Ontario.

But everyone agrees that the war gave birth to the modern US Navy.

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