Identifier: from1800to1900wo00morr (find matches)
Title: From 1800 to 1900. The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., A.B. Kuhlman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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In the War Room at Washington, Secretary Long, Alger, Major General Miles, progress of the Spanish American War. ** THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN NAVY 485 to the careful sighting of the pieces that our sailors owed much of their victorious career. While most of the British shot were wasted on the sea and in the air, nearly all the American balls went Amencan 1 11 1 n ■ • 1 11 • Harksmariship home, carrying death to the lintish crews and destruction to their hulls and spars, while the American ships and sailors escaped in great measure unharmed. As regards the work of our naval inventors, it will suffice to say, that the Americans, while not the first to plate vessels with iron, were the firstto do so effectively and to prove the superiority of the ironclad in navalwarfare. The memorable contest in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac made useless in a day all the fleets of all the nations ofthe world, and caused such a revolution in naval architecture and warfar

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