Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... effect- ual and no more destructive missile than a rotten apple , and , standing behind a door , patiently awaited his opportunity . At length hearing some one approaching whom he supposed to be his brother , he darted from his ...
... effect- ual and no more destructive missile than a rotten apple , and , standing behind a door , patiently awaited his opportunity . At length hearing some one approaching whom he supposed to be his brother , he darted from his ...
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... effect . By these conversations and explanations the excitement was allayed , and at the same time the desired immediate publicity was given to the dignified statement of the American officers in support of the mission , and all ground ...
... effect . By these conversations and explanations the excitement was allayed , and at the same time the desired immediate publicity was given to the dignified statement of the American officers in support of the mission , and all ground ...
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... effects of the temperance reform on the Cumberland were visible in the excellent discipline of the ship , showing that the moral element is the basis of the highest and most efficient military discipline . Lieutenant Foote delivered a ...
... effects of the temperance reform on the Cumberland were visible in the excellent discipline of the ship , showing that the moral element is the basis of the highest and most efficient military discipline . Lieutenant Foote delivered a ...
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... effects will long be felt by many poor deserted mothers , who for ten and fifteen years have not been visited by their sons , but who will in a few months share the gatherings of a two years ' cruise . Will they not thank God for the ...
... effects will long be felt by many poor deserted mothers , who for ten and fifteen years have not been visited by their sons , but who will in a few months share the gatherings of a two years ' cruise . Will they not thank God for the ...
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... effect of whisky in the Navy . The Cumberland lay fourteen days in the dry - dock , and no such conduct was enacted there . I have talked with Mr. Choate about the matter . He told me Mr. Cal- houn voted against the reform , and that he ...
... effect of whisky in the Navy . The Cumberland lay fourteen days in the dry - dock , and no such conduct was enacted there . I have talked with Mr. Choate about the matter . He told me Mr. Cal- houn voted against the reform , and that he ...
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A. H. FOOTE Admiral Foote Africa ANDREW HULL FOOTE Army attack Barrier Forts batteries battle BATTLE OF BELMONT BENTON boats Bureau of Equipment Cairo capture Carondelet Cincinnati Clarksville Cloth coast Columbus Commander Foote Commodore Commodore Foote Conestoga crew cruise Cumberland DEAR Department Donelson duty enemy fight fire Flag-Officer flag-ship FLAG-STEAMER fleet flotilla Foote's Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pillow Gideon give gun-boats guns Halleck heavy Henry honor hope hundred iron-clad Island Joseph Smith land letter Lexington Lieutenant Foote Lieutenant-Commanding Louis Madrid Memphis miles Mississippi morning mortar-boats mortars Mound City Naval Forces Navy Yard night obedient servant officers Perry Phelps Pillow Pittsburg Pope port Portsmouth rams ready rebel received respectfully sailed sailors Secretary sent shells ship shore shot slaver soon squadron steamer Stembel Tennessee River thing tion troops vessels vols Washington West Western flotilla Western Waters wounded
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