The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 131
he naval supremacy of modern Europe,and our own country has proved her splendidsuperiority on the sea, every great people of theworld has striven to develop the strength of itsnavy. To give a picture of the importance of navalwarfare in deciding the fate of nations, I havechosen to describe in… … THE i!A I ILK OF MANILA, MAY I, l8y8, AS SEEN FROM A SPANISH VESSEL. t«i look back at the navies of the past and to watchthe pari they have played in the worlds history. On the eastern shores of the Mediterranean,above the land of Palestine, lay a narrow countryfamous in Bible history, inhabited by…
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