The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-03

We are indebted To Prof Edward Kirk Rawson
Superintendent Of the Naval War Records. for ca
paeious look in two volumes entitled Twenty
Famous Naval Battles: Salauis to Santiago
ct. Y. Crowell Coz Tits di11cult to COMPREHEND
the principle upon which tho naval battles hero
described were selected Only eight Of them
can he fairly described as decisive Thee arc
the battles Of Salanis and ri Actium, the defeat
Of the Spanish Armada. Nelson's victories Of tho
Nile and of Trafalgar and the battles Of Manila
Bay and Santiago: II is right probably TO include
in the list the engagement between the Monitor
and the Merrimac. Why the battle OF the mouth
of Chesapeake Bay between the Conte de Grnsae
and Admiral Graves should have been omitted
we know not. for, had Grave, been sucorssful
Corvallis would not have surrendered and tho
Revolutionary War might have been indefinitely
prolonged. As for the Battle Of Dungrness
that WAS decisive 81 nothing. 'or. although Blake
was h~atcn by Tromp. the English soon recovered
nsrndancy in the Channel The vauned vic
tory ri our lo,lln on Lake Erie. though highly
cr"diinhlc 10 N" m n and officers engaged had no
snhstnn tial results sine no, an inch Of Canadian
soil wns coded 10 lis by the ensuing Peace Of Client
Thos" who rank the victory gained by Don John
of Austria AT lrpanto among decisive naval
battles must surely overlook the fact that within
two years thereafter. the Ottoman fleets werc re-
constructed and rrgaincd u,astcrship Of the Med
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