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What happened on July 11 in American history
July 11 is the 192nd day of the year (the 193rd in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 7 stories from July 11 spanning 1796 to 1962. Among them: in 1796, American troops take Detroit; the Union Jack comes down after thirty-six years; and in 1798, Congress re-establishes a Marine Corps; the new force answers to the Navy.
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American troops take Detroit; the Union Jack comes down after thirty-six years
Britain held the fur-trading outpost through the Revolution and beyond; Jay's Treaty finally forced the handover, months behind schedule.
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Congress re-establishes a Marine Corps; the new force answers to the Navy
Fifteen years after the Continental Marines disbanded, an undeclared naval fight with France puts troops back on warships under the Act for Establishing and Organizing a Marine Corps.
1803
Burr fires at Weehawken; Hamilton is rowed back across the Hudson, shot through the liver
The sitting Vice President walks away unhurt. Hamilton's bullet clipped a branch above Burr's head; Burr's found its mark in Hamilton's abdomen.
1914
USS Nevada slides into the Fore River; the Navy calls her armor scheme unlike anything built before
Eleanor Anne Seibert christens the oil-fueled battleship at Quincy, whose "all or nothing" plating packs 41 percent of the ship's weight over only the spaces that matter.
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Taft sworn in as Chief Justice; Senate confirms him 61 to 4, same day, no hearings
Eight years out of the White House, the former president fills the seat Edward Douglass White left vacant when he died in May.
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Roosevelt and La Guardia open the Triborough Bridge; twenty years of argument end at $60.3 million
Robert Moses presides over the dedication of three spans crossing the Harlem and East Rivers, capping the largest PWA project in the eastern United States.
1962
NASA picks lunar orbit rendezvous as its path to the Moon
A command ship will hold orbit while a separate lander descends to the surface, and one Saturn V rocket can carry the whole mission.
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