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Mildred Fish Harnack, the Only American Female Ever Executed For Espionage by Nazi Germany Mildred Harnack, courtesy, Eric D. Carlson Mildred Fish Harnack was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 16, 1902.  Her parents, descended from a New England, protestant background, separated when Mildred was a teenager and she was primarily raised by her mother.  After her father’s death in 1918, the f...

Captain George Smith Anthony and The Voyage of the SS Catalpa In 1874, rebel leader John Devoy received another letter from Fenian prisoner James Wilson that he chose to read aloud at a national meeting of the Clan Na Gael.  Part of it read:      “Think that we have been nine years in this living tomb since our        first arrest and it is impossible for mind and body to withstand the        cont...

John Paul Jones, Admiral and Patriot John Paul Jones Considered a hero of the American Revolution, John Paul Jones was born in Scotland, carried out most of his naval exploits in the British Isles and died in Paris.  His most famous encounter, a victory over the British warship, HMS Serapis, took place off of the coast of Yorkshire, England, thousands of miles from the American colonies. Artist's...