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That of Mobile Bay on August 5,1864, when Farragut ran a fleet of 18 ships past the guns of the forts defending the bay and decisively defeated the Confederate squadron, incapacitating the ironclad Tennessee, whose commander Adm. Buchanan then surrendered.

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