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100 1 _aLewis, Charles Lee,
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245 1 0 _aFamous American naval officers.
250 _aRev. ed.
260 _aFreeport, N.Y.,
_bBooks for Libraries Press
_c[1971, c1948]
300 _ax, 444 p.
_billus., map, ports.
_c23 cm.
440 0 _aEssay index reprint series
_9888
505 0 _aPaul Jones and the beginning of our Navy.--Stephen Decatur and the Barbary corsairs.--Isaac Hull and "Old Ironsides."--David Porter and the cruise of the Essex.--Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Great Lakes.--Thomas Macdonough and the battle of Lake Champlain.--Matthew Calbraith Perry and the awakening of Japan.--David Glasgow Farragut and the Civil War.--Alfred Thayer Mahan, the historian of sea power.--Robert Edwin Peary and naval exploration.--George Dewey and the war with Spain.--William Sowden Sims and our Navy in the First World War.--Ernest Joseph King and the Second World War.--Chester William Nimitz: naval commander in chief in the Pacific.--William Frederick Halsey: the fighting admiral.--Bibliography (p. 429-432)
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
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_938324
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
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