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The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897, vol. 2 (of 4)

Chapter 22: Transcriber’s Notes
By John Randolph Spears
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The volume presents a narrative history of early United States naval operations, concentrating on ship-to-ship combats, daring chases, and the practical work of sailors. Detailed accounts cover notable single-ship actions, squadron maneuvers, and escapes, and examine training, gunnery, seamanship in heavy weather, and tactical decision making. Contemporary portraits, diagrams, and illustrations accompany descriptions of armament, ship construction, and battle sequences, while chapters assess the strategic and logistical challenges faced by a young navy operating against a larger maritime adversary.

Transcriber’s Notes

New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The illustrations on pages 236-237 and 284-285 were printed as two-page spreads in the original book, but shown as wide illustrations in this eBook.

The Transcriber copied the index from Volume IV. It was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Most of the references are to pages in the other three volumes of this series; all four volumes are available at no charge at Project Gutenberg:

Volume    I: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71794
Volume   II: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71795
Volume  III: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71796
Volume  IV: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71797

In the original book, the index entries for "Biddle, Captain Nicholas" referring to Volume II. actually refer to his nephew, "Biddle, James", and some of those are in Volume III. In this ebook, those entries have been corrected, but the index may contain other errors.