Perhaps the most astounding, if not largest in monetary value, thing to be pawned in history was the northernmost constituency of Great Britain, consisting of around 177 islands and nearly 1000 square miles of land.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.