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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 264 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 162 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 92 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 86 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 80 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 36 0 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 16 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 12 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 10 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Winter Campaigns. (search)
th. She is now at Porto Bello, taking in water. The United States brig Bainbridgt is also at Aspinwall. Surgeon Johnson, of the Bainbridge, has been transferred to the United States sloop-of-war Cyane, last at Acapulco. The Sumter off for Brazil. The privateer Sumter left Surinam on the 5th ult., for the coast of Brazil, followed closely by the United States steamer Powhatan. Heavy guns Versus iron-clad ships.[from the New York Tribune.] The question, long and warmly contesteBrazil, followed closely by the United States steamer Powhatan. Heavy guns Versus iron-clad ships.[from the New York Tribune.] The question, long and warmly contested in Europe, as to whether iron-clad ships-of-war can be made impregnable to the heavies land batteries seems not unlikely to be decided in the negative. If so, it will be a great triumph to our naval engineers; for during forty-five years we have relied chiefly on out fortifications for sea-coast defence, and have, at great cost, strengthened our fortresses, acting on the belief that "wooden walls" were less to be trusted than defences of granite and that, however invulnerable ships of war mig