Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... prepared for in the earlier stages of a life devoted to the highest aims . His example , as well as his reputation , belong especially to the Navy . He was a genuine American sailor ; and we can not do thorough justice to him unless we ...
... prepared for in the earlier stages of a life devoted to the highest aims . His example , as well as his reputation , belong especially to the Navy . He was a genuine American sailor ; and we can not do thorough justice to him unless we ...
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... prepared for and graduated at Yale College before he was seventeen years of age . He subsequently pursued the study of the law with Judge Reeve , of Litchfield , Connecticut , until impaired health compelled him to give it up ; and he ...
... prepared for and graduated at Yale College before he was seventeen years of age . He subsequently pursued the study of the law with Judge Reeve , of Litchfield , Connecticut , until impaired health compelled him to give it up ; and he ...
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... preparation , issuing from deep sources , his acts , like the acts of men of his kind , were rapid ; their results are open to every eye , and the world does not care very much to know about the early shaping influences of a power which ...
... preparation , issuing from deep sources , his acts , like the acts of men of his kind , were rapid ; their results are open to every eye , and the world does not care very much to know about the early shaping influences of a power which ...
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... preparing himself for this by availing himself of all opportunities of study and observation in his reach ; and Ad ... preparation with great earnestness , consulting what books they had access to , but chiefly making practical ...
... preparing himself for this by availing himself of all opportunities of study and observation in his reach ; and Ad ... preparation with great earnestness , consulting what books they had access to , but chiefly making practical ...
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... prepared to serve thee . " " VALPARAISO , February 7 . " This day I observe as one of prayer and humiliation for the manifold evils of my heart . I deplore the ascendency of my passions and my pride . The world appears to be too much in.
... prepared to serve thee . " " VALPARAISO , February 7 . " This day I observe as one of prayer and humiliation for the manifold evils of my heart . I deplore the ascendency of my passions and my pride . The world appears to be too much in.
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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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