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Macdonough

American  
[muhk-don-uh] / məkˈdɒn ə /

noun

  1. Thomas, 1783–1825, U.S. naval officer: defeated British on Lake Champlain 1814.


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“To have everything happen on Macdonough, where it all began many years ago as a friendship. Now we’re able to start this new chapter of our lives together in the same place.”

From New York Times Sep. 12, 2020

Michelle Barnes, 37, an accountant, and Troy Barnes, 37, a program manager, incorporated some of these suggestions on a grand scale for their July 4 stoop wedding that spilled out onto Macdonough Street in Brooklyn.

From New York Times Sep. 12, 2020

La Rocque was aboard the destroyer USS Macdonough at Pearl Harbor when Japanese airplanes attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.

From Washington Post Nov. 5, 2016

Dissenting Commissioner Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, home sick in bed, had been assured nothing would happen till he got back.

From Time Magazine Archive

Macdonough, however, resolved to wind his ship, so as to get the other broadside to bear.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

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