Life of Andrew Hull Foote, Rear-admiral United States Navy: With a Portrait and IllustrationsHarper, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... carry on an in- trigue . The part from the waist down contains thirty yards of silk , plaited in such a manner as to set perfectly smooth , in order to show a fine shape . The robe covering the head is also silk , and large enough to ...
... carry on an in- trigue . The part from the waist down contains thirty yards of silk , plaited in such a manner as to set perfectly smooth , in order to show a fine shape . The robe covering the head is also silk , and large enough to ...
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... carried out the resolution made in his youth that " he would act for God . " It should be said here , so that it need not be misunderstood by the reader , that this is the biography of a Christian officer . He thought himself to be ...
... carried out the resolution made in his youth that " he would act for God . " It should be said here , so that it need not be misunderstood by the reader , that this is the biography of a Christian officer . He thought himself to be ...
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... carrying the war into En- glish seas , and by alertness and audacity making up for want of force and organization - these should not be lost sight of , for they were the first efforts of a power that has since then contested the empire ...
... carrying the war into En- glish seas , and by alertness and audacity making up for want of force and organization - these should not be lost sight of , for they were the first efforts of a power that has since then contested the empire ...
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... carrying 24 twelves on her gun - deck ; was then cut down to a sloop ; next raised upon to be a frig- ate ; and finally once more cut down . It is said that the ship was built by contract , and that the original contractor let out one ...
... carrying 24 twelves on her gun - deck ; was then cut down to a sloop ; next raised upon to be a frig- ate ; and finally once more cut down . It is said that the ship was built by contract , and that the original contractor let out one ...
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... carried through his whole career . By dint of unceasing persuasion , he prevailed upon the pensioners of the asylum to take the temperance pledge , or , as an " old salt " would say , " stop their grog . " He was one of the first to ...
... carried through his whole career . By dint of unceasing persuasion , he prevailed upon the pensioners of the asylum to take the temperance pledge , or , as an " old salt " would say , " stop their grog . " He was one of the first to ...
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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 Captain capture Carondelet Cincinnati Clarksville Cloth coast Columbus Commander Foote Commodore Commodore Foote Conestoga crew cruise Cumberland DEAR Department Donelson duty enemy feel fight fire Flag-Officer 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 stream Tennessee River thing tion troops vessels vols Washington West Western flotilla Western Waters wounded