French town is named historic Civil War site
American cannon blasts bellowed in the English Channel 140 years ago, and bloodied bodies lined the deck of a sinking Confederate ship. Onlookers watched in horror from the Normandy coast.
On June 19, 1864, far from battlefields at home, the USS Kearsarge hunted down and sank a dreaded Confederate raider in one of the most important naval battles of the U.S. Civil War — off the coast of France.
The Confederate ship Alabama today lies where it sank under 198 feet of swirling currents about seven nautical miles off the French town of Cherbourg.
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