News, Divers Find 1811 Wreck That Changed US History. (years, battle, combat)
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Amateur divers say they've found the remains of the USS Revenge, a vessel commanded by legendary naval officer Oliver Hazard Perry that sank off the coast of Rhode Island 200 years ago.
"Our eyes were bulging out of our heads," diver Craig Harger told AOL News in an interview today, describing the discovery. "We were just flabbergasted."
I suppose everything that ever happened changed history? I never even heard of the USS Revenge.
Matthew Perry was the son of Navy Captain, Christopher R. Perry and the younger brother of Oliver Hazard Perry.
Matthew Perry received a midshipman's commission in the Navy in 1809, and was initially assigned to the USS Revenge, under the command of his elder brother. Under his brother's command, Matthew was a combatant in The Battle of Lake Erie aboard the Flagship Lawrence and the replacement flagship, Niagara.
The sinking of the Revenge changed the course of U.S. history, Harger said, since it resulted in Perry being taken from the Atlantic and sent to the Great Lakes.
"He wrecked the Revenge, was commissioned to the Great Lakes and won that battle," Harger told AOL News. "If a lesser man had been there, who knows what would've happened?"
Okay, but the same effect could have been achieved if Perry's parents had never met, but we don't describe their meeting as history changing, do we? Was the night Perry was conceived, history changing?
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