OUR NAVY TEACHES THEM A LESSON IN HONOR I SUPPOSE all the readers of this book know what a pirate is. For those who may not know, I would say that a pirate is a sea-robber. They ar...
CAPTAIN JERRY O'BRIEN LEADS THE PATRIOTS OF 1775 HOW would any of you like to go back to the days when people had only tallow candles to light their houses, and the moon to light t...
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...
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...
THE PIONEER TORPEDO BOAT AND THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS MANY of us, all our lives, have seen vessels of every size and shape darting to and fro over the water; some with sails spread t...
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 greate...
A GALLANT NAVAL HERO OF IRISH BLOOD THE heroes of our navy were not all Americans born. More than one of them came from British soil, but a footprint on the green fields of America...
THE HEROIC CAPTAIN BARNEY IN THE "HYDER ALI" CAPTURES THE "GENERAL MONK" YOU must think by this time that we had many bold and brave sailors in the Revolution. So we had. You have...
DEWEY DESTROYS A FLEET WITHOUT LOSING A MAN GEORGE DEWEY was a Green Mountain boy, a son of the Vermont hills. Many good stories are told of his schoolboy days, and when he grew up...
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 s...
HOW OUR NAVY BEGAN AND ENDED A FOREIGN WAR IN the ship Essex, one of the fleet that was sent to the Mediterranean to deal with the Moorish pirates, there was a brave young officer...
THE BURNING OF THE "GASPEE" IN NARRAGANSETT BAY DOES it not seem an odd fact that little Rhode Island, the smallest of all our states, should have two capital cities, while all the...
"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....