Life of Admiral George Dewey. ... Spector, Ronald, Admiral of the New Empire : the Life and Career of George Dewey. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974). ISBN 0-8071-0087-1).

George Dewey was born on December 26, ... Thus prepared for battle, Dewey launched his attack, through mined waters and firing shore batteries, on Admiral Patricio Montojo's slow, outmoded,

Biography of Rear Admiral William Banks Caperton ... [Adapted from: "Admiral George Dewey." Memo for the Bureau of Navigation, dated 26 July 1917. George Dewey ZB file, Navy Department Library];

DEWEY (care American consul), Hongkong: I send hearty congratulations to yourself and your officers and men. ... In recognition he has appointed you acting rear admiral, and will recommend

America's admiral: George Dewey and American culture in the Gilded Age. - ON 1 May 1898, the United States Navy's Asiatic Squadron, under the c : Encyclopedia.com ... The Second Gilded Age: ... The gilded age.

by Admiral George Dewey ... This seemed naturally the strong position for Admiral Montojo to take up, as he would then have the powerful Manila battery, mounting the guns which have already

His son, Elijah Dewey, raised a company of Green Mountain Boys, and fought under Gen- BIRTHPLACE OF ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY, MONTPELIER, VT. eral Stark at the battle of Bennington, while his wife...

George Dewey, a commodore at the time, ... Congress bestowed upon him the special rank of admiral of the navy. Other honors followed, including the naming of a chewing gum, Dewey's Chewies, after him.

This flowery tribute captures the sense of romance with which turn-of-the-century Americans regarded the naval hero of the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey.

In his capacity as commander of the American Asiatic Squadron, Commodore George Dewey, sailed for Manila Bay upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.