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The First Salute: Eleven Guns That Announced a New Nation
On November 16, 1776, the American Revolution suffered one of its worst disasters. Fort Washington fell, and nearly 3,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured.
That same day, almost 1,800 miles away, the Continental Navy brig Andrew Doria entered the harbor at St. Eustatius and fired thirteen guns. From Fort Oranje, eleven guns answered.
The exchange became known as the First Salute, the first official acknowledgment of an American flag aboard an American national vessel by a foreign authority.
Behind that symbolic moment stood something even more important. St. Eustatius…
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