“Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!” President Woodrow Wilson, 8 December 1914, An Annual Message to Congress. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. “A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest.
President Theodore Roosevelt, 2 December 1902, second annual message to Congress. “A good Navy is not a provocation to war. Then Dewey addressed his order to Charles Gridley, captain of Dewey's flagship Olympia. The American squadron entered Manila Bay and took fire from the Spanish fleet, anchored under the guns of Cavite, for half an hour until in the position Dewey wanted. “You may fire when you are ready Gridley.”Ĭommodore George Dewey,, at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. The torpedoes to which Farragut and his contemporaries referred would today be described as tethered mines.
The fleet followed and anchored above the forts, which, now isolated, surrendered one by one. He swung his own ship clear and headed across the mines, which failed to explode. As disaster seemed imminent, Farragut gave the orders embodied by these famous words. When the lead monitor Tecumseh was demolished by a mine, the wooden ship Brooklyn stopped, and the line drifted in confusion toward Fort Morgan. Aboard Hartford, Farragut entered Mobile Bay, Alabama, 5 August 1864, in two columns, with armored monitors leading and a fleet of wooden ships following. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870).
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