Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... fact , a great naval commander , of the same stamp - though perhaps , from the lack of oppor- tunities , not so famous - as Decatur , Hull , Lawrence , McDon- ough , and Perry . In this biography I have not indulged in highly wrought ...
... fact , a great naval commander , of the same stamp - though perhaps , from the lack of oppor- tunities , not so famous - as Decatur , Hull , Lawrence , McDon- ough , and Perry . In this biography I have not indulged in highly wrought ...
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... fact , during a long and successful political life , he rarely was known to make a speech , although , whenever he did speak , it was to the point . His success was owing to his stanchness and sagacity of character . He was a man of ...
... fact , during a long and successful political life , he rarely was known to make a speech , although , whenever he did speak , it was to the point . His success was owing to his stanchness and sagacity of character . He was a man of ...
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... fact in nature by one so young seemed prophetic of the future man of science . Nothing remarkable of this kind is recorded of Admiral Foote's childhood . The sea is a magnet that draws its own to it wherever they may be . The plowboy on ...
... fact in nature by one so young seemed prophetic of the future man of science . Nothing remarkable of this kind is recorded of Admiral Foote's childhood . The sea is a magnet that draws its own to it wherever they may be . The plowboy on ...
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... fact , his schools and schoolmasters did not probably have much to do in making the man . He drew his sagacity to plan , his courage to dare , his power to act , from his parents , and from the nature God gave him . His first school ...
... fact , his schools and schoolmasters did not probably have much to do in making the man . He drew his sagacity to plan , his courage to dare , his power to act , from his parents , and from the nature God gave him . His first school ...
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... fact , as he often said , his life's ambition was to make himself a perfect naval officer - it ran in the line of his profession . The following is an extract from a boyish letter , dated on board the United States schooner Grampus ...
... fact , as he often said , his life's ambition was to make himself a perfect naval officer - it ran in the line of his profession . The following is an extract from a boyish letter , dated on board the United States schooner Grampus ...
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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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