The USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world. Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the 19th century, she became famous as Adm. George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay. Today she is part of a naval shrine at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia.
This is a flesh-and-steel history of a pivotal warship that straddled the eras of commerce raiding and battle fleet confrontation in naval warfare. From her conceptual beginnings on drawing boards in Washington to the battle to protect her...
The USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world. Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a mo...
During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in riveting detail Robert E. Lee s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero s...
During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union s earlier multitheater thrust into...
