From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . o ??»« C3 ~ Z 1 : : — d ^> I „-§«(fl |_ nj rt S < S- g o t* *? u 0**3. < 5; = bl z S « 6** THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN NAVY 485 to the careful sighting of the pieces that our sailors owed much of their victorious career. While most of the British shot were wasted on the sea and in the air, nearly all the American balls went Amencan 1 11 1 n ? • 1 11 • Harksmariship home, carrying death to the lintish crews and destruction to their hulls and spars, while the American ships and sailors esca
From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . o ??»« C3 ~ Z 1 : : — d ^> I „-§«(fl |_ nj rt S < S- g o t* *? u 0**3. < 5; = bl z S « 6** THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN NAVY 485 to the careful sighting of the pieces that our sailors owed much of their victorious career. While most of the British shot were wasted on the sea and in the air, nearly all the American balls went Amencan 1 11 1 n ? • 1 11 • Harksmariship home, carrying death to the lintish crews and destruction to their hulls and spars, while the American ships and sailors escaped in great measure unharmed. As regards the work of our naval inventors, it will suffice to say, thatthe Americans, while not the first to plate vessels with iron, were the firstto do so effectively and to prove the superiority of the ironclad in navalwarfare. The memorable contest in Hampton Roads between the Monitorand the Merrimac made useless in a day all the fleets of all the nations ofthe world, and caused such a revolution in naval architecture and warfar
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