Commodore Macdonough's Victory On Lake Champlain
HOW GENERAL PREVOST AND THE BRITISH RAN AWAY THE United States is a country rich in lakes. They might be named by the thousands. But out of this host of lakes very few are known in history, and of them all much the most famous is Lake Champlain.... Commodore Perry Opens Japan To The World
AN HEROIC DEED WITHOUT BLOODSHED THERE are victories of peace as well as of war. Of course, you do not need to be told that. Everybody knows it. And it often takes as much courage to win these victories as it does those of war. I am going now t... Commodore Perry Whips The British On Lake Erie
"WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE OURS" IN the year 1813, when war was going on between England and the United States, the whole northern part of this country was a vast forest. An ocean of trees stretched away from the seaside in Maine for a ... Commodore Porter Gains Glory In The Pacific
THE GALLANT FIGHT OF THE "ESSEX" AGAINST GREAT ODDS ANY of you who have read much of American history must have often met with the names of Porter and Farragut. There are no greater names in our naval history. There was Captain David Porter and ... Four Naval Heroes In One Chapter
FIGHTS WITH THE PIRATES OF THE GULF AND THE CORSAIRS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WE have so far been reading the story of legal warfare; now let us turn to that of the wild warfare of the pirate ships. Pirates swarmed during and after the War of 1812,... From Teamster To Major General
On July 3, 1775, under the great elm on Cambridge Common, Washington took command of the patriot army. During the siege of Boston, which followed, his headquarters were in that fine old mansion, the Craigie house, where, from time to time, met men... Hobson And The Sinking Of The Merrimac
AN HEROIC DEED WORTHY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY SOME of us know what a dark night is and some of us don't. Those who live in cities, under the glare of the electric light, hardly ever see real darkness. One must go far into the country, and be out on... How Palmetto Logs May Be Used
In 1775, in Virginia, the patriots forced the royal governor, Lord Dunmore, to take refuge on board a British man-of-war in Norfolk Harbor. In revenge, the town of Norfolk, the largest and the most important in the Old Dominion, was, on New Year's... How Paul Jones Won Renown
THE FIRST GREAT FIGHT OF THE AMERICAN NAVY YOU have been told how Captain Paul Jones lost his ship. He was given another in June, 1777. This was the Ranger, a frigate carrying twenty-six guns, but it was such a slow old tub that our captain was ... How The Gloucester Revenged The Sinking Of The Maine
DEADLY AND HEROIC DEEDS IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN IF you look at a map of the country we dwell in, you will see that it has a finger pointing south. That finger is called Florida, and it points to the beautiful island of Cuba, which spreads out ther... Old Hickory's Christmas
At the beginning of the last century, England was fighting for her very life against the mighty Napoleon. We remained neutral; but our ships were doing a fine business in carrying supplies to the two nations. England, however, looked at us with... Old Ironsides
"Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky." In 1833, when the old war ship Constitution, unfit for service, lay in the navy yard in Charlestown, the S... Our Greatest Patriot
If American boys and girls were asked to name the one great man in their country's history whom they would like to have seen and talked with, nine out of every ten would probably say, "Washington." Many an old man of our day has asked his grandfat... Sampson And Schley Win Renown
THE GREATEST SEA FIGHT OF THE CENTURY I HAVE told you what Hobson did and what Wainwright did at Santiago. Now it is time to tell all about what the ships did there; the story of the great Spanish dash for liberty and its woeful ending. Santi... The Crisis
Exactly eight years from the day when "the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world," the Continental Congress informed General Washington that the war was over. In September, 1783, the formal treaty...

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