#george dewey

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Author: Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum

Title: Commodore George Dewey directing the Battle from on board USS Olympia

Year: 1899

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Autore: Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum

Titolo: Il Commodoro George Dewey che dirige la battaglia a bordo della USS Olympia

[troboi1806]

I always knew my boy Dewey would rise to be a great man one day. We navy men have great intuitions!

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Dewey mania baby

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Battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898

Battle report of Commodore George Dewey regarding the Battle of Manila Bay (Mirs Bay), May 1, 1898 File Unit: 1-5 May 1898, 5/1/1898 - 5/5/1898. Series: Area Files, ca. 1924 - ca. 1946. Record Group 45: Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1691 - 1945

Only days after war was declared, Commodore George Dewey opened the first major engagement of the Spanish American War in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.  Commanding from his flagship USS Olympia, Dewey’s American Asiatic Squadron would destroy the Spanish Pacific Fleet in little more than 7 hours.  The battle was the beginning of the end for Spain’s aspirations in the Pacific, and would allow the United States to emerge as a global power.

Months earlier Dewey had earlier received coded orders from then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt to seek out and engage the Spanish fleet.

Telegram, in code, from Theodore Roosevelt to Admiral Dewey, 2/26/1898  

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The Voice That is Heard

December 14th, 1901

George Dewey, in the minority, endorses Winfield Schley in the dispute over the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. Miniature figures Francis Ramsey and Andrew Benham, in the majority, protest that Schley was all wrong. Uncle Sam looks on.

There was a controversy over Schley's conduct during the Spanish-American War, and while a board of admirals had determined he had been in the wrong, Admiral Dewey's defense, even though in the minority, was considered an exoneration. Dewey was considered the most respected admiral of his time, and the highest-ranked admiral in American History.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: http://digitalcollections.hclib.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Bart/id/5134/rec/192

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Telegram, in code, from Theodore Roosevelt to Admiral Dewey, 2/26/1898  

File Unit: February 1898, 2/1898 - 2/1898. Series: Area Files, ca. 1924 - ca. 1946. Record Group 45: Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1691 - 1945

This telegram, in code from then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt to Admiral George Dewey, Commander, Pacific Squadron, authorized Dewey to engage the Spanish fleet, although war would not be declared until April.   Sent without the knowledge of Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long, the telegram is dated 11 days after the USS Maine had been mysteriously destroyed in Spanish-controlled Havana.  Admiral Dewey would go to destroy the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898. 

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George Dewey : Born December 26, 1837 : Died January 16, 1917

George Dewey was Admiral of the Navy, the only person in United States history to have attained that rank. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Man...

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