George Dewey

George Dewey shattered the Spanish in a stunningly one-sided victory at Manila Bay.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

George Dewey shattered the Spanish in a stunningly one-sided victory at Manila Bay.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

U.S. martial leaders have long prayed before and after battle: George Washington at the close of the Revolutionary War; George Dewey after his victory against the Spanish fleet at Manila; and Dwight D.

Archive 2008-11-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

U.S. martial leaders have long prayed before and after battle: George Washington at the close of the Revolutionary War; George Dewey after his victory against the Spanish fleet at Manila; and Dwight D.

Atheists in foxholes Stephen Retherford 2008

Antagonism between the American and German navies went back to June 1898, when an American naval squadron commanded by Commodore George Dewey had a potentially dangerous confrontation with a German force under Vice Admiral Otto von Diederichs in Manila Bay.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

KARNOW: Theodore Roosevelt, one of the architects of our war with Spain and the man who was responsible, in fact, for ordering Commodore George Dewey, who was then commander of a small squadron of American ships in Asia.

In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines 1989

Within three days more, Commodore George Dewey, who was in command of a fleet at Hong-Kong, had been instructed to proceed at once to the Philippine Islands and capture or destroy the Spanish fleet there.

The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

The Pacific fleet, under Commodore George Dewey, had lain for some weeks at Hongkong.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

Through Roosevelt's instrumentality, Commodore George Dewey had been appointed in the preceding autumn to command our Asiatic Squadron, and while, in the absence of Governor Long, Roosevelt was Acting-Secretary, he sent the following dispatch:

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

Fortunately before he could take Manila or the Philippines he had to take the American Commodore, George Dewey, and when he discovered what sort of a sea-fighter the mountains of Vermont had produced in Dewey, he decided not to attack him.

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919