Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago; . Entering Mobile Bay 246 Battle of Mobile Bay 255 Le Solferino, 1865 255 The Capture of Fort Fisher 277 Decaturs Struggle With the Algerines 295 Battle of the Yalu 330 Blowing Up of the Maine in Havana Harbor 336 U. S. Steamship Katahdin 345 Admiral Dewey and his Flagship Olympia 7,77 Cutting Cables near Cienfuegos under Spanish Fire 388 The Battle of Manila. The American Fleet 3S7 The Spanish Fleet. After the Battle of Manila 368 Admira
Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago; . Entering Mobile Bay 246 Battle of Mobile Bay 255 Le Solferino, 1865 255 The Capture of Fort Fisher 277 Decaturs Struggle With the Algerines 295 Battle of the Yalu 330 Blowing Up of the Maine in Havana Harbor 336 U. S. Steamship Katahdin 345 Admiral Dewey and his Flagship Olympia 7,77 Cutting Cables near Cienfuegos under Spanish Fire 388 The Battle of Manila. The American Fleet 3S7 The Spanish Fleet. After the Battle of Manila 368 Admiral Dewey and His Flagship Olympia 2>77 Cutting Cables Near Cienfuegos Under Spanish Fire 388 Capture of Hobson and the Merrimac Men 397 Admiral Cerveras Fleet Leaving -Curacoa 408 The Destruction of Admiral Cerveras Fleet off Santiago, July 3, 1898. 413 Battleships Iowa and Oregon Destroying Spanish Cruisers 432 Deck of U. S. S. Indiana 438 U. S. S. Oregon 447 At the Wheel 453 Writing Home 453 Serving Hammocks 472 The Battleship Massachusetts in the Stocks 477 Cruiser Columbia in Dry Dock, League Island 488 xi SERAPIS AND BONHOMME D. HIS remarkable action is interesting not onlyon account of its bloody and desperatecharacter, and on account of the sensationit produced at the time, but because itillustrates one phase of our great strugglefor independence; a considerable space istherefore devoted to it. The hero of this action, John Paul, wasborn at Kirkcudbright, in Scotland, July 6th, 1747; andwas sent to sea, as an apprentice, at the age of afterwards made voyages as mate of a slaver, then anhonored and recognized employment for a portion of theEnglish merchant marine. At twenty-one he had command of a vessel In the WestIndia trade, so that his merits as a seaman were earlyrecognized. He afterwards became a trader in a vesselof his own. At the age of twenty-six he left the sea; and adoptedthe name of Jones. The reason for this does not clearlyappe
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