Famous American naval officers.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: United States. Navy -- Biography; United States. Navy -- History
Table of contents: title: Paul Jones and the beginning of our Navy.; title: Stephen Decatur and the Barbary corsairs.; title: Isaac Hull and "Old Ironsides."; title: David Porter and the cruise of the Essex.; title: Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Great Lakes.; title: Thomas Macdonough and the battle of Lake Champlain.; title: Matthew Calbraith Perry and the awakening of Japan.; title: David Glasgow Farragut and the Civil War.; title: Alfred Thayer Mahan, the historian of sea power.; title: Robert Edwin Peary and naval exploration.; title: George Dewey and the war with Spain.; title: William Sowden Sims and our Navy in the First World War.; title: Ernest Joseph King and the Second World War.; title: Chester William Nimitz: naval commander in chief in the Pacific.; title: William Frederick Halsey: the fighting admiral.; title: Bibliography (p. 429-432)