_by Chelsea Curtis Fraser_
Truth can be more exciting than fiction, as these fourteen stirring sea
battles from the pages of history prove. From the days of Sir Francis
Drake, when life on the sea was a constant battle between the Spanish
and the English, to the Battle of Leyte, sea fights have determined the
destiny of men and nations. In these pages you will find Commodore John
Paul Jones, Lord Nelson, Oliver Perry, Admiral David Farragut, and
Dewey, together with the dramatic stories of the _Constitution_ and the
_Guerrière_, the _Monitor_ and the _Merrimac_, and the sea battles of
World Wars I and II.