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Don't give up the ship

  1. Don't surrender; a favorite motto of the United States Navy. These were the dying words of Commander James Lawrence during a battle in the War of 1812.



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“Don’t give up the ship,” Tony Parisi, the retired Navy captain, wrote in an opinion piece for Breaking Defense, a trade publication, citing the War of 1812 warning from a Navy captain, James Lawrence, as his ship was sinking.

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Navy’s Expeditionary Strike Group 3 evoked the famous naval battle cry from the War of 1812: “Don’t Give Up the Ship.”

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It had a famous navy battle cry - “Don’t Give Up The Ship” - flying from the port yardarm.

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As the ship sailed into the port, it was flying a flag with the words “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” a famous Navy battle cry from the War of 1812.

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In just a few days of mixing Negronis, Lemon Drops and something called Don’t Give Up the Ship, she generated more than $1,000.

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