Famous American naval officers.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Freeport, N.Y. :
Books for Libraries Press,
[1971]
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
| Series: | Essay index reprint series
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Table of Contents:
- Paul Jones and the beginning of our Navy
- Stephen Decatur and the Barbary corsairs
- Isaac Hull and "Old Ironsides."--David Porter and the cruise of the Essex
- Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Great Lakes
- Thomas Macdonough and the battle of Lake Champlain
- Matthew Calbraith Perry and the awakening of Japan
- David Glasgow Farragut and the Civil War
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, the historian of sea power
- Robert Edwin Peary and naval exploration
- George Dewey and the war with Spain
- William Sowden Sims and our Navy in the First World War
- Ernest Joseph King and the Second World War
- Chester William Nimitz: naval commander in chief in the Pacific
- William Frederick Halsey: the fighting admiral
- Bibliography (p. 429-432)