Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 215
o > en 000 lyvEyroR.^ described her appearance among the British fleetas that of a wolf among- a flock of sheep. Thedav of the bisr wooden war-vessels was over. Itwas. nevertheless, an Eno-lishman and a naval of- … ficer. Captain Cowper Coles, who sought to de-prive Ericsson of the honor of his invention.Coles declared that he had devised a shi[) duringthe Crimean war, in which a turret or cupolawas to protect the guns. Ericssons letter to JOHN ERICSSON 203 Napoleon III., written in 1854, is sufficient…
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