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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 71

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ef places in the memory of the Anglo-Saxon race, — theVictory, Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar, ami the Constitution, whose achieve-ments under Hull, Bainbridge, and Stewart, rang around the world. Therewere, even before the days of steam, war-vessels twice as large and powerfulas Old Ironsides, but… … NELSONS FLAGSHIP VICTORY. hull, which is of historic interest, in that it is reproduced from the originaldrawing made in October, 1796. When her power and dimensions are compared with those of the Oregon,our sea-fighter of to-day, one sees what time has wrought. The frigate car-ried 456 men, the…

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