... ship cruised off the coast, making several prizes of vessels much inferior to herself in force, and on the 7th of September anchored within the capes ...
... that I did not fear him, I offered to go back and proceed with him to Valparaiso. He was informed that I was in command, he being simply my adviser ...
... a fair wind to follow. As Porter stood out, however, he thought possible, by keeping close to the wind, to pass to windward, which, with the superior ...
... military ardor and efficiency an undue amount of that spirit of the good housekeeper which makes a home unbearable. Farragut was aided to his wise conclusion ...
... was the utility of these vessels so apparent. Everything was done by them. The day was calm, or nearly so, and the ships had no sails to manage. ...
... but, like all the women of Buenos Ayres at that time, were perforce ardent Federalists and detesters of the savage Unitarios. Farragut mentions ...
... and what they could not but to this common knowledge of sea officers, gained by the daily habit of sea life, he had added the results of study and ...
... in conversation with my staff, when he came up. After a few moments' conversation, he said he would like to see me alone. We passed into the house ...
... a genius for war, and afterward continually confirmed by his ever-ripening experience. Left thus unsupported by the logical results of her false ...
... with the admiral's demands. On the other hand, while there could be no difficulty in hoisting the United States flag, there would be much in protecting ...
... under way-eleven vessels, of which three were the heavy ships Hartford, Richmond, and Brooklyn two, the corvettes Iroquois and Oneida and six gunboats. ...
... to make it the headquarters of the fleet for repairs and supplies. Farragut arrived there on the 20th of August. Just before leaving New Orleans he received ...
... to cover the great stretch which the admiral had purposed to occupy with seven vessels. Neither was the Albatross of sufficient force to be left by ...
... chaffingly in reference to some slighting comments in a Southern newspaper, if Pollard's stomach were as tightly pinched for food as theirs at Port ...
... offensive strength of the fleet, outside the monitors, consisted. The guns of those ships, being disposed along the sides, were for the most part able ...
... this to be an error, he wrote in his official report of the battle for, apart from the fact that exposure is one of the penalties of rank in the ...
... which British, French, and Spaniards had battled, and which lay within the limits of his command. The renown of his achievements had carried his name ...
... without courting destruction, have used against a thoroughly efficient enemy the tactics that admirably suited the conditions in Aboukir Bay and off ...
... on his birthday to go through certain physical exercises, or, as he worded it to a young officer of the fleet shortly before passing the river forts, ...
... And Port Hudson. 1862-1863.Chapter X. Mobile. 1864.Chapter Xi. Later Years And Death. 1864-1870.Chapter Xii. The ...