Admiral Farragut by Alfred Thayer Mahan

This Halcyon Classics edition of Alfred Thayer Mahan's ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, a biography of David Glasgow Farragut, the Union Admiral whose leadership was instrumental in the capture of New Orleans, the lower Mississippi River, and Mobile Bay during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Farragut is remembered for his famous order "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"