David Glasgow Farragut - Lewis, Estate Of Charles Lee
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The first volume of Lewis' masterful biography of David Glasgow Farragut's long career in the Navy covers his years of service before the Civil War. Farragut was about sixty years old when that war began, having lived through the long transitional period from sail to steam. As a lad he had served with Capt. David Porter on board the USS Essex during her glorious cruise, which ended in bloody defeat at Valparaiso, cruised many times in the Mediterranean, hunted pirates in the Caribbean, and almost died of yellow fever. Farragut became familiar with the coast of Mexico and was present when the…mehr

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The first volume of Lewis' masterful biography of David Glasgow Farragut's long career in the Navy covers his years of service before the Civil War. Farragut was about sixty years old when that war began, having lived through the long transitional period from sail to steam. As a lad he had served with Capt. David Porter on board the USS Essex during her glorious cruise, which ended in bloody defeat at Valparaiso, cruised many times in the Mediterranean, hunted pirates in the Caribbean, and almost died of yellow fever. Farragut became familiar with the coast of Mexico and was present when the French bombarded the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa at Vera Cruz. He often cruised into Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Rio de Janeiro when revolution and anarchy threatened those cities, and he was on a man-of-war at Charleston when nullification threatened the union. Farragut participated in the Mexican War, established the Mare Island Navy Yard, and commanded the steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn. During these years he gradually rose from midshipman to captain, then on to the highest rank in the United States Navy. >
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Charles Lee Lewis, born in 1886, a prominent naval historian and a professor of English and history at the United States Naval Academy, wrote biographies of Matthew Fontaine Maury, Franklin Buchanan and Stephen Decatur.