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Gefallen Engel U-666
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France.
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While the CSS Alabama had heavier firepower, the USS Kearsarge was a more advanced ship with more precise firepower. Thousands of French spectators witnessed the fight between the two ships from the coast, and the USS Kearsarge defeated the CSS Alabama, which sank. The fight was widely covered in the newspapers. Not having witnessed the battle himself, Manet relied on press descriptions of the fight to document his work in his famous painting. His knowledge of the USS Kearsarge being limited, he hid the victor in the smoke of the defeated USS Alabama in his battle painting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/arts/art-review-sunk-at-sea-and-captured-on-canvas.html  AND THE USS KEARSARGE AT BOULOGNE PAINTED FIRSTHAND WELL AFTER THE BATTLE: BOTH BY EDOURD MANET>
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