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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 70 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 61 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 34 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 32 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 26 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 22 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 14 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 14 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Inspiring Examples of Heroism. (search)
escended from that a alwart race, or are a mongrel litter of puppies, who know no more than dogs do of their grandfathers, and deserve to be caught by the dogcatchers, and only rescued from death by a dog-collar, in the shapes of an oath of allegiance to the Yankees. Before the age of Elizabeth, England had little more foothold upon the unstable deep than the Southern Confederacy at this hour, although the roots of her present naval supremacy may be traced far back into Danish, and even Saxon times. It was the general opinion, up to the days of Drake and Hankins, that the English navy would never be able to cope with the great armaments of Spain, or even Portugal, upon the ocean! Such was the status of England among naval powers when Drake and Hankins, like Semmes and Maflit began to prove that the blood of the old Vikings was still alive in the exploits of their descendants. It was in the year 1587, when the magnitude and object of the Armada became known, that Drake, with on