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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6,437 1 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1,858 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 766 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 302 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 300 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 266 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 224 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 222 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 214 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Artillery skirmishing. (search)
n more remarkable of late years than at any former period of English history. The application of steam to sea-going vessels, which it was thought would compel Great Britain to divide with France and America the sceptre of the deep, has only increased the maritime preponderance of Great Britain. It is true that, at first, her steaGreat Britain. It is true that, at first, her steam vessels were of the "slow but sure" order, rather solid than showy, and not of the most graceful and attractive models. The Yankees, with their fast, finely furnished, magnificent steamships, caused honest Bull to open his eyes wide with astonishment, and to confess candidly that he was a slow coach in comparison. But he never hout sacrificing that solidity and security which belong peculiarly to England. The fastest and the best steamships now in the world are emphatically those of Great Britain. She has fairly driven the Yankee steamships from the ocean. Instead of that country being in her decline and decrepitude, she seems in every department of h