The Somers Affair was an incident on board the American brig USS Somers while on a training mission in 1842 under Captain Alexander Slidell Mackenzie...
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voyage, Somers was acting as an experimental schoolship for naval apprentices. After calls at Madeira, Tenerife, and Praia, looking for Vandalia, Somers arrived...
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abusive, and Somers often worried that he would kill her. Somers was a bedwetter until age 12, which led to additional abuse from her father. Somers first attended...
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British in 1814. USS Somers (1842), was a brig launched in 1842 and sunk in 1846. The ship is known for the Somers Affair. USS Somers (TB-22), was a torpedo...
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Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (section Somers mutiny)
execute three suspected mutineers aboard a ship under his command USS Somers in the Somers Mutiny. Mackenzie was also an accomplished man of letters, producing...
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training brig Somers by his captain on suspicion of conspiracy to mutiny. In 1845, Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft seized on the Somers affair as a reason...
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John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, PC, FRS (4 March 1651 – 26 April 1716) was an English jurist, Whig statesman and peer. Somers first came to national attention...
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An affair is a union of more than two people in one romantic and sexual relationship, [soul tie], passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants...
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The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until...
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Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803–1848), US Navy officer involved in the "Somers Affair" Alexander Mackenzie (historian) (1838–1898), Scottish historian Alexander...
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