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Bonus Challenge Solution Page

The answer to Nov. 26th's weekly history challenge was E (go to archives to read the question). So, once you entered Bonus1 and E (as the password) you were given a coded message to decode the first clue. The message was actually the orders (mission) for the USS Alligator. You were also given the opportunity to get the decipher codes (key) by answering the timeline question, which was BCEAD.

Decoded message reads:

To: Eakins (Samuel Eakins was the captain of the USS Alligator)

Destroy Underwater Obstacles barring the waters around Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor. Proceed with the USS Sumpter. (The Sumpter was the ship that towed the Alligator when they hit the storm and had to cut it loose).

From: Dupont (admiral Dupont was the one who sent the Alligator on this mission)

Answer to December 3rd's history challenge was November 8th, 1861 - you was then told to use Bonus2 and the number 8 (answer) as the password for clue #2.

Clue#2

You were to figure out who the mathematics professor and Submarine builder was that may have inspired Jules Verne the Author of the book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" in the town of Nantes France. This Professor was Brutus de Villeroi who was later hired by the United States to build the USS Alligator.

So, the answer to the first weekly history challenge was E, and the answer to the second history challenge was November 8th. Which gave you the grid location E8. I also would have accepted off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, which is the last know location of the USS Alligator.

The resource for the bonus challenge came from the following book and websites:

A Patriot's History of the United States

http://www.navyandmarine.org/alligator/

http://www.oldsubsplace.com/Technical%20description%20of%20Alligator.htm

http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/alligator/m_history.html

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Also be sure to check out the following titles regarding Civil War Submarines!

Submarine Warfare in the Civil War By Mark K. Ragan

Confederate Submarines and Torpedo Vessels 1861-65 By Angus Konstam

Union and Confederate Submarine Warfare in the Civil War By Mark K. Ragan

The Hunley: Submarines, Sacrifice, and Success in the Civil War