Liaison is what makes listening to and speaking French so darn difficult for newbies (and even not so newbies). Liaisons happen when a consonant which is normally silent, dead, or phonologically null, suddenly gets pronounced at the beginning of the word that follows it.
Navy.mil Home Page. An Overview. The following chart presents an overview of the organization of the Department of the Navy. The U.S. Navy was founded on 13 October 1775, and the Department of the Navy was established on 30 April 1798.
But not before Congress revived the Navy in 1794, authorizing the construction of six warships, including USS Constitution, which remains afloat to this day in Boston Harbor. In 1801 the ruler of Tripoli declared war as part of an attempt to extract increased tribute, and this time the Navy was sent in.