The Beginning of the American Revolution

Lieutenant Paul Jones

The Cruise of the Alfred

Captain Paul Jones

The Cruise of the Ranger

The Ranger  and the Drake

The Bon Homme Richard

The Great Fight with the Serapis

Honor to the Hero

The Return to America

Ambitious Hopes

Sad Disappointments

How the Perry Family Came to Rhode Island

School Days

Plans for the Future

The Cruise in the West Indies

The War with the Barbary States

More Trouble with England

War on the Canadian Border

Oliver Perry Builds a Fleet

"We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours"

What Perry's Victory Accomplished

On the Mediterranean Again

Captain Perry's Last Cruise

Childhood

The Little Midshipman

The Loss of the Essex

The Trip on the Mediterranean

War with the Pirates

From Lieutenant to Captain

The Question of Allegiance

The Capture of New Orleans

The Battle of Mobile Bay

Well-Earned Laurels

Causes of the War with Spain

The Battle of Manila

The Boyhood of George Dewey

Dewey as a Naval Cadet

From Lieutenant to Commodore

The American Navy in Cuban Waters

The Cruise of the Oregon

Lieutenant Hobson and the Merrimac

The Destruction of Cervera's Fleet

The End of the War

Life on an American Man-of-War

Some Facts about the Navy of 1898