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Two United States Navy ships have been named USS Alliance.

• The first Alliance was a sailing frigate[?] of the Continental Navy[?], and notable for firing the last shots of the American Revolutionary War, over a month after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

• The second Alliance was a screw gunboat[?] commissioned in 1877 and in service until 1911.

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