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CHAPTER XVI. Oliver Hazard Perry?Prompt and Effective Work?"We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours"?Death of Perry.
CHAPTER XVII. A Hero of the Olden Days?Cruise of the Constitution?Her Capture of the Cyane and Levant?Reminiscences of Admiral Stewart?His Last Days. CHAPTER XVIII. Captures Made After the Signing of the Treaty of Peace?The Privateers?Exploit of the General Armstrong?Its Far-Reaching Result. Afterward President of the United States LESSER WARS CHAPTER XIX. Resentment of the Barbary States?The War with Algiers?Captain Decatur's Vigorous Course?His Astonishing Success as a Diplomat. CHAPTER XX. Piracy in the West Indies?Its Cause?Means by Which It Was Wiped Out?Piracy in the Mediterranean. CHAPTER XXI. The Qualla Battoo Incident. CHAPTER XXII. Wilkes's Exploring Expedition. THE WAR FOR THE UNION CHAPTER XXIII. A New Era for the United States Navy?Opening of the Great Civil War?John Lorimer Worden?Battle Between the Monitor and Merrimac?Death of Worden. CHAPTER XXIV. Two Worthy Sons?William D. Porter?The Career of Admiral David Dixon Porter. CHAPTER XXV. Charles Stuart Boggs?His Coolness in the Presence of Danger?His Desperate Fight Below New Orleans?His Subsequent Services. CHAPTER XXVI. John Ancrum Winslow?His Early Life and Training?The Famous Battle Between the Kearsarge and Alabama. CHAPTER XXVII. An Unexpected Preacher?Andrew Hull Foote?His Character and Early Career?His Brilliant Services in the War for the Union. CHAPTER XXVIII. A Man Devoid of Fear?William Barker Cushing?Some of His Exploits?The Blowing Up of the Albemarle?His Sad Death. CHAPTER XXIX. The Greatest of Naval Heroes?David Glasgow Farragut. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR CHAPTER XXX. The Movement Against Cuba?The Destruction of Cervera's Fleet?Admiral Sampson?Admiral Schley?"Fighting Bob" Evans?Commodore John C. Watson?Commodore John W. Philip?Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright. |