Famous American naval officers
By: by Charles Lee Lewis.
Series: Famous leaders series
Publisher: L.C. Page & company, incorporated
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: United States. Navy -- Biography.; United States. Navy -- History.
Other titles: American naval officers.
Notes: "A selected bibliography": p. 361-364.
"First impression, July, 1924."
Table of contents: value: Paul Jones and the beginning of our navy.; value: Stephen Decatur and the Barbary corsairs.; value: Isaac Hull and "Old Ironsides".; value: David Porter and the cruise of the Essex.; value: Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Great Lakes.; value: Thomas Macdonough and the battle of Lake Champlain.; value: Matthew Calbraith Perry and the awakening of Japan.; value: David Glasgow Farragut and the civil war.; value: Alfred Thayer Mahan, the historian of sea power.; value: Robert Edwin Peary and naval exploration.; value: George Dewey and the war with Spain.; value: William Snowden Sims and our navy in the world war.