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Page 188
... bow - rifles of the latter . Then , forging ahead , the Merriac struck her antagonist with her steel prow , an the sloop - of - war reeled and VANS " The Monitor . " THE ENCOUNTER AT SHORT 188 HERO TALES FROM AMERICAN HIST.
... bow - rifles of the latter . Then , forging ahead , the Merriac struck her antagonist with her steel prow , an the sloop - of - war reeled and VANS " The Monitor . " THE ENCOUNTER AT SHORT 188 HERO TALES FROM AMERICAN HIST.
Page 195
... Monitor to attack her , and the latter could not move off where she would cease to protect the wooden vessels . The ram was ultimately blown up by the Confederates on the advance of the Union army . Tactically , the fight was a drawn ...
... Monitor to attack her , and the latter could not move off where she would cease to protect the wooden vessels . The ram was ultimately blown up by the Confederates on the advance of the Union army . Tactically , the fight was a drawn ...
Page 314
... monitor , fired two few minutes Fort Morgan shots at the fort . In a was ablaze with the flash of her guns , and the wooden vessels W leading broadside . Far side after main - rigging , and as the s ually climbed higher , until maintop ...
... monitor , fired two few minutes Fort Morgan shots at the fort . In a was ablaze with the flash of her guns , and the wooden vessels W leading broadside . Far side after main - rigging , and as the s ually climbed higher , until maintop ...
Page 315
... monitors . The Tecumseh , stand- ing straight for the Tennessee , was within two hundred yards of her foe , when a torpedo suddenly exploded beneath her . The monitor was about five hundred yards from the Hartford , and from the maintop ...
... monitors . The Tecumseh , stand- ing straight for the Tennessee , was within two hundred yards of her foe , when a torpedo suddenly exploded beneath her . The monitor was about five hundred yards from the Hartford , and from the maintop ...
Page 316
... monitors were awed or daunted by the fate of their consort , but drew steadily on- the bigger monitors the captains , like had remained but on the two light craft so haras found themselves that they both quarters , deck . As the men on ...
... monitors were awed or daunted by the fate of their consort , but drew steadily on- the bigger monitors the captains , like had remained but on the two light craft so haras found themselves that they both quarters , deck . As the men on ...
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