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Naval Battles of the World

by Edward Shippen

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Contents
  4. 4Naval Battles, Ancient and Modern
  5. 5I — Salamis. B. C. 480
  6. 6II — Naval Battle at Syracuse. B. C. 415
  7. 7III — Romans and Carthaginians
  8. 8IV — Actium. B. C. 31
  9. 9V — Lepanto. A. D. 1571
  10. 10VI — The Invincible Armada. A. D. 1588
  11. 11VII — Some Naval Events of Elizabeth’s Time, Succeeding the Armada
  12. 12VIII — Naval Actions of the War Between England and Holland. A.D. 1…
  13. 13IX — French and Dutch in the Mediterranean. A.D. 1676
  14. 14X — Battle of Cape la Hague. A. D. 1692
  15. 15XI — Benbow. A. D. 1702
  16. 16XII — Byng and la Galissonière. A.D. 1756
  17. 17XIII — Sir Edward Hawke and Conflans. A. D. 1759
  18. 18De Grasse and Rodney. A. D. 1782
  19. 19Lord Howe and the French Fleet. June 1st, A. D. 1794
  20. 20Battle of Cape St. Vincent. A. D. 1797
  21. 21English Fleet in Canary Islands. A. D. 1797
  22. 22Battle of Camperdown. 11th October, A. D. 1797
  23. 23Battle of the Nile. 1st. August, 1798
  24. 24Leander and Généreux. 16th August, A.D. 1798
  25. 25Action Between the Ambuscade and Bayonnaise. A.D. 1798
  26. 26Sir Sidney Smith and His Seamen at Acre. A.D. 1799
  27. 27Foudroyant and Consorts, in Action With the Guillaume Tell. 1800
  28. 28Naval Operations at Aboukir Bay, and Capture of Alexandria. A.D. 1801
  29. 29The Cutting Out of the Chevrette. July, A. D. 1801
  30. 30Boat Attack Upon the French Flotilla, at Boulogne. A. D. 1801
  31. 31Copenhagen. A.D. 1801
  32. 32Trafalgar. October 21st, A.D. 1805
  33. 33Lord Exmouth at Algiers. A. D. 1816
  34. 34Navarino, 1827
  35. 35Sinope, 1853
  36. 36Lissa, 1866
  37. 37Some Naval Actions Between Brazil, the Argentine Confederation and…
  38. 38The Capture of the Huascar. October 8th, 1879
  39. 39Bombardment of Alexandria. July 11th, A. D. 1882
  40. 40The War Between China and Japan
  41. 41Naval Battles of America
  42. 42Serapis and Bonhomme Richard. A. D. 1779
  43. 43Wasp and Frolic. A. D. 1812
  44. 44Constitution. A.D. 1812
  45. 45Lake Erie. 10th September, 1813
  46. 46Essex, Phœbe and Cherub — Valparaiso. March 28th, A. D. 1814
  47. 47Battle of Lake Champlain. September 11th, A. D. 1814
  48. 48Constitution in Action With Cyane and Levant. 1815
  49. 49Merrimac and Monitor. March 9th, 1862
  50. 50Farragut at New Orleans
  51. 51Atlanta and Weehawken. June 17th, 1863
  52. 52Kearsarge and Alabama. June 19th, 1864
  53. 53Mobile Bay. August 5, 1864
  54. 54Cushing and the Albemarle. October, 1864
  55. 55Fort Fisher. December, 1864, January, 1865
  56. 56Deeds of Valor on the Seas. By Captain H. D. Smith, U. S. R. S., an…
  57. 57Our New Navy
  58. 58The Explosion of the Maine — February 15, 1898
  59. 59Dewey’s Action at Manila — May 1st, 1898

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