What You Need to Know: The Alaska ... Navy wanted to keep up with modern vessels of war tit for tat. President Roosevelt, always a navy supporter, was game for the new American battlecruiser ...

The bombardment and burning of Angoon, in southeastern Alaska ... a whaling ship owned by his employer, the North West Trading Company, according to The Associated Press. By the Navy’s account ...

Chinese Navy ships ... saw three ships about 124 miles north of the Amchitka Pass, a strait in the the Aleutian Islands, a remote archipelago that stretches 1,200 miles from the Alaska Peninsular.