Oliver Wendell Holmes of Cambridge, Massachusetts, responding…

1830 CE

Oliver Wendell Holmes of Cambridge, Massachusetts, responding to plans to scrap the USS Constitution, turns the old warship into a venerated icon with his poem "Old Ironsides".

The twenty-one year old Holmes’s flamboyantly patriotic poem saves the Constitution and makes him famous.

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Cambridge Middlesex Massachusetts United States View →

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Literature: 1828 to 1972 View →

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