Defender

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Defender fue el defensor victorioso de Estados Unidos de la décima Copa América en 1895 contra el retador Valkyrie III. Defender fue diseñado por Nathanael Greene Herreshoff y construido por la Herreshoff Manufacturing Company en 1895. Fue el segundo diseño de defensor de la Copa América victorioso de Herreshoff. Diseño Defender era un sloop con construcción totalmente metálica: acero, aluminio y bronce al manganeso. Era propiedad de William Kissam Vanderbilt, Edwin Dennison Morgan y Charles Oliver Iselin, y era capitaneado por Henry C. Haff. Carrera Defender derrotó al Vigilant del New York Yacht Club y luego defendió la copa contra el cortador de quilla británico Valkyrie III. Lord Dunraven de la Valkyrie alegó trampa por parte de la tripulación de Defender. Tras la competencia, Defender fue remolcado a la residencia de C. Oliver Iselin en New Rochelle, New York donde permaneció atracado durante cuatro años sin navegar. En 1899 J. Pierpont Morgan y W. Buttler Duncan reconstruyeron Defender para las pruebas de regata contra el candidato a la defensa de la Copa América, Columbia.

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“Hattı müdafaa yoktur, sathı müdafaa vardır. O satıh bütün vatandır.”
— There is no defense line, but defense territory. This territory is the whole of the motherland!
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.”
— Abraham Lincoln, speech at Edwardsville, Illinois (11 September 1858);The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler, Vol. 3, p. 95. The last two sentences appear in slightly varying form inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: "Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors." -->
“Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only.”
— Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Sect. II : Of Justice and Beneficence, Chapter 2.
“The only thing that I’ve ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it’s time for Negroes to defend themselves.”
— Malcolm X, speech (3 April 1964).

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