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Identifier: storyofgreatestn09elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The First Ironclad Man-of War. (The Southern Ram "Merrimac" Attacks the Northern Fleet) From a Print copyrighted by C. Klackner, 1892. Image: IX-52
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IX .o t- )■• - l^-*-. O C. KLi.-k The United States—Capture of New Orleans. page 1641. The advent of the Merrimac and Monitor revolutionized the navies of the world. American genius had made wooden ships obsolete, and useless for real battle. Great Britain and every other Power hastened to imitate us in the building of iron ships. Even before this celebrated contest, Admiral Farragut had been placed in command of the most extensive fleet ever gathered under the American flag. This was sent to capture New Orleans, the largest city and chief port of the South, the key to the Mississippi, whose waters Lincoln had already termed the backbone of the Confederacy. New Orleans was guarded by two tremendously powerful forts, below which a chain of old hulks blockaded the river,and above which lay a rebel fleet, with two ironclads of the Merrimac type, one of them, however, not quite finished. Farragut's ships broke the chain, managed to evade the fire-rafts sent down against them, and darted defian...

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