A fact from James Young (Royal Navy officer, born 1717) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 September 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Vice-AdmiralJames Young was so incensed when the Dutch island of St. Eustatius gave the first foreign salute to the American flag, that he instigated a blockade of it?
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