Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . ral fleet and made her first attack upon the Minnesota. The tiny Monitor, looking, as was said, like a cheese-box on a plank,steamed out from behind the frigate and engaged her gigantic adversary. For an hour the two ironclads battered each other with cannon-balls, and the Merrimac again and again, but
Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . ral fleet and made her first attack upon the Minnesota. The tiny Monitor, looking, as was said, like a cheese-box on a plank,steamed out from behind the frigate and engaged her gigantic adversary. For an hour the two ironclads battered each other with cannon-balls, and the Merrimac again and again, but in vain, tried to ram the Monitor. At the end the Merrimac was beaten and was com-pelled to withdraw from the scene, completely baffled. The Monitor,scarcely injured, remained the victor, the savior of the Federal navy andof the seaboard cities of the North. In that hour naval warfare wasrevolutionized. The great wooden navies of the world were seen to beworthless before the advent of the ironclad. It may be added that the Monitor was afterwards lost in a storm at sea, while the Merrimacwas run aground in the James River and burned. CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS. The first task of the United States Navy in the war was that ofblockading the coast of the Southern States. This was done with note-. WASHINGTON IRVING MARK TWAIN 1875—FAMOIS POETRY AM) IKoSE WRITERS OF THF MXETEENTH CENTURY
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