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The Virginia even manages to ram the Monitor after four hours of fighting, but in doing so, takes direct cannon fire from literally meters away. After several more hours of intense engagement, the battle ends with no results: both battleships retreat. But a revolution had taken place: battleships with revolving turrets would dominate the seas for over a century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frigate Minnesota is the sole survivor of the Union fleet off Norfolk, beached far&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vg-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>March 9, 1862 - Cronologia Universale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/march-9-1862\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"March 9, 1862 - 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