Great day in History!

In 1776 the U.S. Navy captured its first British ship off the coast of Virginia. See what happened back then is the British ticked off the Irish and then the Irish came to the U.S. and signed up to fight the British. No sense in having their homeland invaded(wait, the British did that anyway). John Barry(he be the Irishman) offered his services to the U.S. in 1745. Congress purchased his ship the BLACK PRINCE from him and then promptly renamed it.... wait for it.... wait for it ..pause for effect... ALFRED! Yes, Alfred because we are a creative lot.
In 1862 the great civil war battle of Shiloh concluded. Two days of fighting, remember back then they didn't fight at night. No night vision goggles, no fighting thems was the rules. See the Confederates had the Yankees driven back but night fell and everyone went to supper, some went to the Hornet's Nest, others went to the Bloody Pond, some went to the Peach Orchard but they all had a nice dinner. The Yankee casualties were: 1754 killed, 8408 wounded, and 2885 captured or wounded. The Conferate casualties were: 1723 killed, 8012 wounded, and 959 missing(they wouldn't admit to being captured) which goes to show you that even it you had more killed, wounded, and missing you won the battle(what? do you think this is golf, the lower score does not win in the case of Civil War).
In 1939 Italy invaded Albania because Mussolini wanted to impress Hitler by showing he could over run a country also. Uhhmmm.... Benito you don't invade a country that is already dependent on you for everything it has... you could just keep the stuff you're giving them.. you know, take your ball and go home type of thing. OH, it was a precursor for bigger and better conquest, I see, what was I thinking... So how did the invasion of Greece work out for you Benito? Not so well huh, disastourous you say. Anyone else, Did you conquer anyone else? Noooo.... so basically what you're telling me is you picked the wrong side. Yeah, that's what I thought.
Oddly enough the above is all true so I hoped you learned something today.

Have a Great Day, Ask, Believe, Receive.