David Glasgow Farragut: Admiral in the Making by Lewis, Charles Lee

David Glasgow Farragut: Admiral in the Making (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781591144151)

Vendor: Estate Of Charles Lee Lewis
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$38.95
$38.95
$38.95
Subtotal: $38.95
David Glasgow Farragut: Admiral in the Making by Lewis, Charles Lee

David Glasgow Farragut: Admiral in the Making

$38.95
David Glasgow Farragut: Admiral in the Making by Lewis, Charles Lee

David Glasgow Farragut: Admiral in the Making

$38.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
The first volume of Lewis' masterful biography of David Glasgow Farragut's long career in the U.S, Navy covers his life before the Civil War. Farragut served with Captain David Porter in the USS Essex; cruised in the Mediterranean; hunted pirates in the Caribbean; almost died of yellow fever; observed the French bombardment of Vera Cruz; sailed into Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Rio de Janeiro when revolution threatened those cities; fought in the Mexican War; and commanded the steam sloop of war Brooklyn. During these years he slowly rose from midshipman to captain, then to the highest rank in the United States Navy.

Author: Estate Of Charles Lee Lewis
ISBN-10: 1591144159
ISBN-13: 9781591144151
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2014
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.40d
By Estate Of Charles Lee Lewis
By Estate Of Charles Lee Lewis
x
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.

Recently Viewed Products