Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... actions on the Tennessee , Cum- berland , and Mississippi rivers , from which the engravings in this work were made , were drawn expressly for the book by the gallant Rear - Admiral H. Walke , and lend the author- ity of an eye ...
... actions on the Tennessee , Cum- berland , and Mississippi rivers , from which the engravings in this work were made , were drawn expressly for the book by the gallant Rear - Admiral H. Walke , and lend the author- ity of an eye ...
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... Action at Lucas's Bend , and Reconnoitring Expeditions .. CHAPTER XV . 169 Action at Eddyville . - Documents respecting the Flotilla.- Defective Guns . - Battle of Belmont . - Correspondence ... 177 CHAPTER XVI . Preparations for ...
... Action at Lucas's Bend , and Reconnoitring Expeditions .. CHAPTER XV . 169 Action at Eddyville . - Documents respecting the Flotilla.- Defective Guns . - Battle of Belmont . - Correspondence ... 177 CHAPTER XVI . Preparations for ...
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... action . The strength of his nature was on its moral side . What he purposed he thought ; what he willed he did . His life is in his deeds . Silent in preparation , issuing from deep sources , his acts , like the acts of men of his kind ...
... action . The strength of his nature was on its moral side . What he purposed he thought ; what he willed he did . His life is in his deeds . Silent in preparation , issuing from deep sources , his acts , like the acts of men of his kind ...
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... belonged to the Pacific squadron , under Commodore Hull . Before sailing , in a letter , dated January 29 , 1824 , he gives vent to a thought- less , ambitious wish for action : " We are ready for sea , and only waiting.
... belonged to the Pacific squadron , under Commodore Hull . Before sailing , in a letter , dated January 29 , 1824 , he gives vent to a thought- less , ambitious wish for action : " We are ready for sea , and only waiting.
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... actions lie in the circle of very re- cent events . The voyage of the John Adams , in which we are now particularly interested , was really one of the circum- navigation of the globe . They sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Bombay ...
... actions lie in the circle of very re- cent events . The voyage of the John Adams , in which we are now particularly interested , was really one of the circum- navigation of the globe . They sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Bombay ...
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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