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captured the insurgent transport on the high seas and took her to
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had been damaged by an uncharted rock the previous evening and had to be withdrawn from the action.
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arrived at Cape Palmas on 3 February 1876. Liberia was in practice an American colony, and
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99:Charlestown Navy Yard
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