Life of Andrew Hull Foote, Rear-admiral United States Navy: With a Portrait and IllustrationsHarper, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... enemy of man - the enemy to his hopes and happiness - ardent spirits , is abolished . Who would have believed a man , thirty years ago , had he predicted that a ship , a frigate - a flag - ship , too , of the squadron - would cruise a ...
... enemy of man - the enemy to his hopes and happiness - ardent spirits , is abolished . Who would have believed a man , thirty years ago , had he predicted that a ship , a frigate - a flag - ship , too , of the squadron - would cruise a ...
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... enemy . Always ricochet the shot when the water is smooth enough ; but with the shells keep the gun up about half a degree , so that the shot may not touch first nearer than 500 yards , as the water is apt to extinguish the priming of ...
... enemy . Always ricochet the shot when the water is smooth enough ; but with the shells keep the gun up about half a degree , so that the shot may not touch first nearer than 500 yards , as the water is apt to extinguish the priming of ...
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... enemy - although the narrow channel and strong tide rendered it necessary to move them abreast of , instead of in a line with each other . " Your last communication of the 19th instant contained the following clause : " I am glad to ...
... enemy - although the narrow channel and strong tide rendered it necessary to move them abreast of , instead of in a line with each other . " Your last communication of the 19th instant contained the following clause : " I am glad to ...
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... enemy prevented from increasing his means of defense or assault , in the most expedient and efficient manner your judg- ment and means may warrant , even though you may be led to the cap- ture of the forts . ' 66 " As there were no ...
... enemy prevented from increasing his means of defense or assault , in the most expedient and efficient manner your judg- ment and means may warrant , even though you may be led to the cap- ture of the forts . ' 66 " As there were no ...
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... enemy on the Canton side of the river at once opened upon us . Accordingly the guns in the fort we occupied were brought to bear , and , with the assistance of the howitzers , silenced it in the course of half an hour . It now being ...
... enemy on the Canton side of the river at once opened upon us . Accordingly the guns in the fort we occupied were brought to bear , and , with the assistance of the howitzers , silenced it in the course of half an hour . It now being ...
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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