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...crystal-clear July 3 of 1898, her turrets swung around, her guns (four 13-inchers, eight 8-inchers) spat steel and death at the Spaniards, her sweating gun crews cheered. Six Spanish ships were destroyed, the Spanish flagship Maria Teresa was chased onto the beach. U.S. Commodore W. S. Schley wigwagged: "Well done, brave Oregon." And because the Oregon was almost late to battle, she clinched another argument, which ended U.S. isolationism forever: a Panama canal was vital to U.S. defense...
...Fairchild acquired 33 plants, 17 under lease, 16 under subcontract. It owned three. Commented Richard Schley Boutelle, vice president and manager, "We didn't buy a damned thing outright...
...brigadier general, the President broke a prized tradition of the Army-that the crack Corps of Engineers shall be headed by a West Pointer. (West Point was founded in 1802 as a school for engineers exclusively.) Franklin Roosevelt gave the job, vacated by able but aging Major General Julian Schley, to a civil engineering alumnus of peaceful University of Delaware...
...That tradition stems from dashing Scot John Paul Jones, father of the navy, skipper of Bon Homme Richard and many another fighting craft of the days of wooden ships and iron men. It is of seamy Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol, of spectacled, bluff Admiral James Otto Richardson, 1940's CINCUS, whose fleet lies in the Pacific while the Japanese...
...Santiago, Cuba without once sighting or being sighted by a U. S. warship. Navy censor ship hid that inglorious episode from the U, S. public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley had ventured close enough to sight a Spanish cruiser lying in plain view near the entrance to Santiago harbor, Admiral William T. Sampson determined to bottle up the enemy fleet by sinking a ship across the narrow harbor entrance. Because of his knowledge of ship construction, Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, nine...