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...reporter expressed some surprise when told that the Coast Guard was a military organization, and took part in the conflicts against other nations...
...course they do," Mr. Billard told his interviewer, and rapidly went over the history of the Coast Guard. "The first commission issued by President Washington to any officer for service afloat was bestowed upon Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire, as Captain in the Coast Guard...
...Coast Guard Active in Defense...
...know," continued the Rear Admiral, "that of the 22 boats captured by the United States during the differences will France in 1798 and 1799, the Coast Guard cutters captured 18, unaided, and assisted in the capture of two others; that a Coast Guard vessel made the first capture during the War of 1812; that piracy, which prevailed during the first part of the nineteenth century in the Gulf of Mexico, owed its suppression chiefly to the Coast Guard; that the cutters participated actively in the Seminole Indian War, the Mexican War, the Paraguayan Expedition in 1858, and, in the Civil...
...Treasury, General John A. Dix, Which contained the direction: 'If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the shot', was transmitted on the evening of January 15, 1861, for the purpose of retaining under the control of the Federal government the United State Coast Guard cutter 'Robert McLelland', then in the port of New Orleans...