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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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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

“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

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

Soon after the defiant game-cock had thus cast down the gage of battle, Macdonough sighted and fired the first shot from one of the long twenty-four pounders of the "Saratoga."

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.

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