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    An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864
    An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864
    An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864
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    An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864

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      An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864 - Frederick Milnes Edge

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      Title: An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge

      An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel,

      on Sunday June 19th, 1864

      Author: Frederick Milnes Edge

      Release Date: August 6, 2011 [EBook #36988]

      Language: English

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      AN ENGLISHMAN’S VIEW

      OF THE

      BATTLE

      BETWEEN THE

      ALABAMA AND THE KEARSARGE.

      AN ACCOUNT OF

      THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL, ON SUNDAY, JUNE 19TH,

      1864. FROM INFORMATION PERSONALLY OBTAINED IN THE TOWN

      OF CHERBOURG, AS WELL AS FROM THE OFFICERS AND

      CREW OF THE UNITED STATES’ SLOOP-OF-WAR

      KEARSARGE, AND THE WOUNDED AND

      PRISONERS OF THE CONFEDERATE

      PRIVATEER.

      BY

      FREDERICK MILNES EDGE.

      NEW YORK:

      ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH,

      No. 770 BROADWAY.

      1864.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,

      By ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH,

      In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern

      District of New York.

      EDWARD O. JENKINS,

      Printer and Stereotyper,

      20 North William Street.

      This Record

      OF

      A MOST GLORIOUS VICTORY

      GAINED IN THE CAUSE OF

      JUSTICE AND HUMANITY,

      IS

      DEDICATED TO

      THAT NOBLE OFFSPRING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

      The Sanitary Commission of the United States,

      BY

      THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT,

      THE AUTHOR.

      London, July 14, 1864.

      The writer of this pamphlet is an English gentleman of intelligence now residing in London, who has spent some time in this country, and is known and esteemed by many of our best citizens. He visited Cherbourg for the express purpose of making the inquiry and investigation, the results of which are embodied in the following pages, and generously devotes the pecuniary results of his copyright to the funds of the Sanitary Commission.

      The Alabama and the Kearsarge.

      The importance of the engagement between the United States Sloop-of-war, Kearsarge, and the Confederate Privateer, Alabama, cannot be estimated by the size of the two vessels. The conflict off Cherbourg on Sunday, the 19th of June, was the first decisive engagement between shipping propelled by steam, and the first test of the merits of modern naval artillery. It was, moreover, a contest for superiority between the ordnance of Europe and America, whilst the result furnishes us with data wherefrom to estimate the relative advantages of rifled and smooth-bore cannon at short range.

      Perhaps no greater or more numerous misrepresentations were ever made in regard to an engagement than in reference to the one in question. The first news of the conflict came to us enveloped in a mass of statements, the greater part of which, not to use an unparliamentary expression, was diametrically opposed to the truth; and although several weeks have now elapsed since the Alabama followed her many defenceless victims to their watery grave, these misrepresentations obtain as much credence as ever. The victory of the Kearsarge was accounted for, and the defeat of the Alabama excused or palliated upon the following principal reasons:—

      1. The superior size and speed of the Kearsarge.

      2. The superiority of her armament.

      3. The chain-plating at her sides.

      4. The greater number of her crew.

      5. The unpreparedness of the Alabama.

      6. The assumed necessity of Captain Semmes’ accepting the challenge sent him (as represented) by the commander of the Kearsarge.

      Besides these misstatements there have been others put forth, either in ignorance of the real facts of the case, or with a purposed intention of diminishing the merit

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