Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . news of that event, the LondonTimes said: Whereas we had available for immediatepurposes one hundred and forty-nine first-class war ships,we have now two, these two being the Warrior and hersister Ironside. There is not now a ship in the Englishnavy, apart from these two, that it would not be madnessto trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. Eng-land and all other maritime powers immediately proceededto reconstruct their navies, and the old-fashiond three andfour-decker line-of-battle ships were c
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . news of that event, the LondonTimes said: Whereas we had available for immediatepurposes one hundred and forty-nine first-class war ships,we have now two, these two being the Warrior and hersister Ironside. There is not now a ship in the Englishnavy, apart from these two, that it would not be madnessto trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. Eng-land and all other maritime powers immediately proceededto reconstruct their navies, and the old-fashiond three andfour-decker line-of-battle ships were condemned as only in ships, but in their armament, there was rapid MONITOR AND MERRIMAC. 229 progress, and so great has been the advance in marineartillery that the Monitors of 1862, and the subsequentyears of the American war, would be unable to resist theshot from the guns of i88o-87. The most recent warsteamers of England, France, Russia, and Italy are claimedto be as great an improvement upon the American Moni-tors as were those vessels upon their wooden CHAPTER XIV. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG—1863. It is not our purpose to trace the causes of the civilwar in the United States of America, in the years from1861 to 1865, a war which deluged the land with bloodand brought mourning into many thousands of homesfrom one end of the country to the other. Each sidebattled for what it believed to be the right, and each dis-played, valor, determination, and heroism, that will for-ever be the pride of all Americans, without distinction ofcreed or party. From its commencement in 1861 thewar progressed with varying fortunes until the event ofwhich this chapter treats. With its smaller population and its limited resources,the South had been compelled to see the war confinedto its own area. In the West the Union armies hadsteadily advanced into the Southern territory; in theEast the ports of the South were blockaded, whilethe land forces chiefly confined their operati
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