The Somers Affair was an incident involving the American brig USS Somers during a training mission in 1842 under Captain Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848)...

voyage, Somers was acting as an experimental schoolship for naval apprentices. After calls at Madeira, Tenerife, and Praia, looking for Vandalia, Somers arrived...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An affair is a relationship typically between two people, one or both of whom are either married or in a long-term relationship with someone else. The...

Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803–1848), US Navy officer involved in the "Somers Affair" Alexander Mackenzie (historian) (1838–1898), Scottish historian Alexander...

The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until...