Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... American sailor ; and we can not do thorough justice to him unless we view him in this light . His qualities of mind and temperament have the smack of the salt sea - the free play and rough force of old ocean . He was a true child of ...
... American sailor ; and we can not do thorough justice to him unless we view him in this light . His qualities of mind and temperament have the smack of the salt sea - the free play and rough force of old ocean . He was a true child of ...
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... American an- cestor , from whom he was removed about eight generations , was Nathaniel Foote , who came from England to Watertown , Mass . , in 1630 , and in 1635 was one of the company of emi- grants of whom Trumbull , in his history ...
... American an- cestor , from whom he was removed about eight generations , was Nathaniel Foote , who came from England to Watertown , Mass . , in 1630 , and in 1635 was one of the company of emi- grants of whom Trumbull , in his history ...
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... American statesman , or , perhaps , the better word would be politician , of the old school , with the marked conservatism of the shrewd men of his state , and with the still higher qualities of independence and firmness . These sterner ...
... American statesman , or , perhaps , the better word would be politician , of the old school , with the marked conservatism of the shrewd men of his state , and with the still higher qualities of independence and firmness . These sterner ...
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... American gentleman as well as hero - was not as yet forgotten . This gentler side of the Puritan charac- ter and education is sometimes lost sight of . Doubtless there was too little of the spirit of indulgent sympathy with inno- cent ...
... American gentleman as well as hero - was not as yet forgotten . This gentler side of the Puritan charac- ter and education is sometimes lost sight of . Doubtless there was too little of the spirit of indulgent sympathy with inno- cent ...
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... American cities as to win almost the honors of legitimate heroes . The original buccaneers , however , who had some show of legaliza- * William A. Browne , of Cheshire , Connecticut . + Hildreth's History of the United States , vol . ii ...
... American cities as to win almost the honors of legitimate heroes . The original buccaneers , however , who had some show of legaliza- * William A. Browne , of Cheshire , Connecticut . + Hildreth's History of the United States , vol . ii ...
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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 Canton capture Carondelet Cincinnati Clarksville coast Columbus Commander Foote Commodore Commodore Foote Conestoga crew cruise Cumberland DEAR deck Department Donelson duty enemy feel fight fire Flag-Officer flag-ship FLAG-STEAMER fleet flotilla Foote's Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pillow Gideon give gun-boats Halleck 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 Washington Western flotilla Western Waters wounded