From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10318 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, December 13 2022 Volume 14 : Number 10318 Today's Subjects: ----------------- What Does NOT Cause Vertigo and Dizziness! ["Benign Vertigo" Subject: What Does NOT Cause Vertigo and Dizziness! What Does NOT Cause Vertigo and Dizziness! http://vertigodizziness.shop/CaUDPhYS6jShpfv4jcAjR4Ow4Vs8ueBVJBV52U5Lxvz_HZAtcQ http://vertigodizziness.shop/Mcd7w0pOil6P_X556WLlomK9X3mud2_GAYQFgBNd_uOZruMilw Although the Union successfully used a substantial fleet of casemate ironclad riverboats in their Mississippi and Red River Campaigns, the casemate ironclad is mostly associated with the Confederacy. This is partly due to the Battle of Hampton Roads, in which the Union turreted ironclad USS Monitor and the Confederate casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (sometimes called the Merrimack) dueled, giving rise to the popular notion that "The North had Monitors (predominantly deployed for coastal operations, whereas the unseaworthy Union casemate ironclads were restricted to inland river operations b hence their "brown-water navy" nickname) while the South had (casemate) ironclads". In effect, the Confederacy concentrated its efforts on casemate ironclads as a means to harass the Union blockade of their ports, but this was a choice dictated by available technology and materials rather than by confidence in the possibilities of this type. Since breaking the Union blockade was the primary objective of the Confederacy's casemate ironclads, as outlined in a May 1861 letter from its Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory (who was the one who came up with the idea of employing ironclads to offset the numerical superiority of the Union Navy in the first place) to the Confederate House Committee on Naval Affairs, the majority of them were from the outset designed to operate in coastal wat ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10318 ***********************************************