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Title: John Paul Jones' last cruise and final resting place the United States Naval academy
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Marion, H. (Henri), 1857-1913
Subjects: Jones, John Paul. 1747-1792 United States Naval Academy
Publisher: Washington, D.C., G. E. Howard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ort Severn, which had been turned overto the Navy Department, and which consisted of about ten acres.This old fort, a relic of the War of 1812, will be the only build-ing of the original naval school that will survive the changeswhich have transformed it into the largest and best school of itskind in the world. The rebuilding of the Naval Academy had its origin in a reportof the Board of Visitors of 1895, of which Colonel R. M. Thomp-son, a former graduate of the Naval Academy, was the movingspirit; it is to him that the rebuilding of the Naval Academy isdue to a great extent. A board, of which CommodoreMatthews was president, appointed July 5, 1905, by Secre-tary Herbert to examine and report upon the needs of the institu-tion, reported that the buildings were unsafe and the arrange-ments unsanitary. No definite action was taken until 1898, when Congress madean appropriation to carry out the scheme of rebuilding the NavalAcademy, according to plans prepared at the request of the Sec-
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