Famous American naval officers / by Charles Lee Lewis ...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
L.C. Page & Company incorporated,
1944 [i.e. 1945]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Famous leaders series.
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| Physical Description: | v-x pages, 2 leaves, 415 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 21 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Paul Jones and the beginning of our Navy
- Stephen Decatur and the Barbary corsairs
- Isaac Hull and "Old Ironsides."--David Porter and the cruise of the Essex
- Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Great Lakes
- Thomas Macdonough and the battle of Lake Champlain
- Matthew Calbraith Perry and the awakening of Japan
- David Glasgow Farragut and the Civil War
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, the historian of sea power
- Robert Edwin Peary and naval exploration
- George Dewey and the war with Spain
- William Sowden Sims and our navy in the First World War
- Ernest Joseph King and the Second World War
- A selected bibliography (p. 401-404)