Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States: Illustrated, Volume 9Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart American Educational Alliance, 1916 - United States |
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... began another cruise in the West Indies , but captured few prizes and on October 4 anchored in the harbor of Bahia , Brazil . At dawn of the next day the United States steam corvette Wachusett , in command of Napoleon Collins , an ...
... began another cruise in the West Indies , but captured few prizes and on October 4 anchored in the harbor of Bahia , Brazil . At dawn of the next day the United States steam corvette Wachusett , in command of Napoleon Collins , an ...
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... began to move less quickly and to settle by the stern , but did not slacken her fire . Six times the vessels circled around each other , the Alabama doing little damage to the Kearsarge , only one of her shells having exploded upon the ...
... began to move less quickly and to settle by the stern , but did not slacken her fire . Six times the vessels circled around each other , the Alabama doing little damage to the Kearsarge , only one of her shells having exploded upon the ...
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... began , the Brooklyn , under Captain James Alden , leading the way , with a smaller mate lashed to the portside to insure passage through if the starboard vessel's machinery should be disabled . Farragut would have led in the Hartford ...
... began , the Brooklyn , under Captain James Alden , leading the way , with a smaller mate lashed to the portside to insure passage through if the starboard vessel's machinery should be disabled . Farragut would have led in the Hartford ...
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... siege guns under command of Major Gen- eral D. H. Maury and there were also five gunboats under Commodore Eben- ezer Farrand . Canby began his move- ment on March 17 , 1865. Ten days 18 later he laid siege to Spanish Fort , the.
... siege guns under command of Major Gen- eral D. H. Maury and there were also five gunboats under Commodore Eben- ezer Farrand . Canby began his move- ment on March 17 , 1865. Ten days 18 later he laid siege to Spanish Fort , the.
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... began an exchange of artillery fire , by 7 o'clock compelling Sigel to abandon Rude's Hill , to cross the Shenandoah , and to continue his retreat down the valley to Cedar Creek where he ar- rived early on the morning of the 17th . The ...
... began an exchange of artillery fire , by 7 o'clock compelling Sigel to abandon Rude's Hill , to cross the Shenandoah , and to continue his retreat down the valley to Cedar Creek where he ar- rived early on the morning of the 17th . The ...
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