War on the Water: A Little Russian Roulette

Citizens of New York awoke the morning of September 11, 1863, to discover a 33-gun screw frigate anchored off Pier 8 in the city’s harbor. The ship flew what was clearly a foreign ensign—crossed blue stripes against a white field—but one unfamiliar to most New Yorkers. The vessel, it was eventually learned, was Oslyabya, a …

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