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Excerpt from Forty Five Years Under the Flag IN preparing this history of forty-five years of service nu der the flag of the United States, the writer has felt that it was his duty, while still in vigorous health, to record the inci dents and activities of a career that has covered many impor tant years in the nation's progress. This service has included, in times of peace, all quarters of the globe. It has imposed responsibilities and afforded experiences that do not usually come to naval men, and at the same time it has given oppor tanitics to observe other civilizations and to visit other coun tries. In Me of war it has included the Civil War, the storming of the Korean fortifications on Kang Hoa Island and participation in the war with Spain that ended in the total destruction of the Spanish fleet and the capture of Admiral Cer vera, his ofiicers and men, on July 3, 1898, 03 Santiago de Cuba. In a description of these incidents and activities it has not been possible to cover, in the preliminary chapters, everything that happened in the times there referred to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.