Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 418
s, apprehending theoutcome, had given the President $50,000,000 to put the country on a warfooting. In reply to the call for 125,000 volunteers, five times that numberoffered themselves. It had been more than fifty years since the United States had encountereda foreign foe, and since the close of… … ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY. 394 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY without the loss of a single man. Entering Manila Bay, scorning torpe-does and mines, his wonderful battle at Cavite is the admiration of theworld. Schley, with his flying squadron, watched in Hampton Roads for an attackby the…
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