Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers. All Rights Reserved.
| PUBLISHED WEEKLY. | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1895. | FIVE CENTS A COPY. |
| VOL. XVI.—NO. 811. | TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. |
HEROES OF AMERICA.
THE FIGHT AT HAMPTON ROADS.
BY THE HONORABLE THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
aval battles of the civil war have an immense importance, because theymark the line of cleavage between naval warfare under the old and navalwarfare under the new conditions. From the days of the defeat of theSpanish Armada, for two centuries and a half, the fighting at sea wascarried on in ships of substantially the same character—wooden sailingships, carrying many guns mounted in broadside. Howard, Drake, Blake,Tromp, De Ruyter, Nelson, and all the other great admirals, and all thefamous single-ship fighters—whose skill