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Independent united states. it went loaded with goods to sell in asia, and it came back full of porcelain and tea. our first president george washington himself owned a set of tableware from that ship. in 1804 thomas jefferson sent to lewis and clarke on an expedition to our pacific coast. they were the first of the millions of americans who ventured west to live out america's manifest destiny across our vast continent. in 1817, the congress approved the first full-time pacific development of an american warship. that initial naval presence soon grew into a squadron, then a
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