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ANSWER


On June 19, 1864, the USS Kearsarge, in one of the most important naval battles of the Civil War, sank the Confederate raider CSS Alabama, in the English Channel near the port city of Cherbourg, France. In September this year (2004), Cherbourg was named a historic Civil War site, the first outside the US, by the Civil War Preservation Trust.

For more information: http://www.css-alabama.com



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