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THE ESCAPE OF THE “CONSTITUTION”
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PIKE & CUTLASS
OF
OUR NAVY
BY GEORGE GIBBS
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1900
The Curtis Publishing Company
J. B. Lippincott Company
OF THE
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
PAST, PRESENT, AND
FUTURE
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NOTE
The writer expresses thanks for their courtesy to the editors of“Lippincott’s Magazine” and the editors of the “SaturdayEvening Post,” of Philadelphia, in which periodicals several ofthese Hero Tales have been printed. He also acknowledges hisindebtedness for many valuable historical facts to “Cooper’s NavalHistory;” “History of the Navy,” by Edgar S. Maclay; “Historyof Our Navy,” by John R. Spears; “Twelve Naval Captains,” byMolly Elliot Seawell; “American Naval Heroes,” by John HowardBrown; “Naval Actions of the War of 1812,” by James Barnes;and to many valuable works and papers in the archives of theLibrary of the Navy Department at Washington. Thanks are duethe Art Department of the “Saturday Evening Post” and the ArtDepartment of “Collier’s Weekly” for their permission to reprintmany of the drawings herein.
GEORGE GIBBS.
August 15, 1899.
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CONTENTS
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