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USS Miantonomoh (1863)
The first USS ''Miantonomoh'' was the lead ship of Miantonomoh-class monitor, her class of four ironclad monitor (warship), monitors built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed after the war ended in May 1865, the ship made one cruise off the East Coast of the United States, East Coast before she began a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic in May 1866 to conduct a lengthy wikt:show the flag, showing the flag mission in Europe. ''Miantonomoh'' was Ship decommissioning, decommissioned upon her return in 1867, but was reactivated two years later and assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron before decommissioning again in 1870. The monitor was sold for ship breaking, scrap three years later as part of a scheme where the United States Department of the Navy, Navy Department evaded the Congress of the United States, Congressional refusal to order new ships by claiming that the Civil War-era ship was being repaired while building a new monitor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miantonomoh
Miantonomoh (1600? – August 1643), also spelled Miantonomo, Miantonomah or Miantonomi, was a chief of the Narragansett people of New England Indians. Biography He was a nephew of the Narragansett grand sachem, Canonicus (died 1647), with whom he associated in the government of the tribe, and whom he succeeded in 1636. Miantonomoh seems to have been friendly to the English colonists of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, though he was accused of being treacherous. In 1632 Miantonomoh and his wife Wawaloam travelled to Boston to visit with Governor John Winthrop. In 1636, when under suspicion, Miantonomoh went to Boston to prove his loyalty to the colonists. In the following year, during the Pequot War, he permitted John Mason to lead his Connecticut expedition against the Pequot Indians through Narragansett country. The Pequot were defeated in this war. In 1638, he signed for the Narragansett the tripartite treaty between that tribe, the Connecticut colonists and the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
