June 10
The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduated its first class on JUNE 10, 1854.
The Academy was established under George Bancroft, Secretary of Navy for President James Polk.
On June 16, 1845, Polk issued Order 27 to Secretary George Bancroft:
"The President...with heartfelt sorrow announces to the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps the death of Andrew Jackson...
The 8th day of June, about 6 o'clock, he resigned his spirit to his Heavenly Father...
He believed the liberties of his country imperishable...
He departed from this life in a full hope of a blessed immortality through the merits and atonement of the Redeemer."
George Bancroft, known as the "father of American history" for compiling the nation's first comprehensive record, wrote in Progress of Mankind:
"The Divine Being should...be known, not as a distant Providence...but as God present in the flesh...The consciousness of an incarnate God carried peace into the bosom of humanity."
George Bancroft continued:
"The idea of GOD WITH US dwelt and dwells in every system of thought that can pretend to vitality; in every oppressed people, whose struggles to be free have the promise of success; in every soul that sighs for redemption."
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The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduated its first class on JUNE 10, 1854.
The Academy was established under George Bancroft, Secretary of Navy for President James Polk.
On June 16, 1845, Polk issued Order 27 to Secretary George Bancroft:
"The President...with heartfelt sorrow announces to the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps the death of Andrew Jackson...
The 8th day of June, about 6 o'clock, he resigned his spirit to his Heavenly Father...
He believed the liberties of his country imperishable...
He departed from this life in a full hope of a blessed immortality through the merits and atonement of the Redeemer."
George Bancroft, known as the "father of American history" for compiling the nation's first comprehensive record, wrote in Progress of Mankind:
"The Divine Being should...be known, not as a distant Providence...but as God present in the flesh...The consciousness of an incarnate God carried peace into the bosom of humanity."
George Bancroft continued:
"The idea of GOD WITH US dwelt and dwells in every system of thought that can pretend to vitality; in every oppressed people, whose struggles to be free have the promise of success; in every soul that sighs for redemption."
JUNE 10. Bancroft, George. Address titled, "The Progress of Mankind." George Bancroft, Literary & Historical Miscellanies, pp. 502, 504. Stephen Abbot Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR: American Heritage Ministries, 1987; Mantle Ministries, 228 Still Ridge, Bulverde, TX), pp. 24-25. Semi-centennial celebration. Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the New York Historical Society. Monday, November 20, 1854.
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