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A Call to the Sea - Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution (Hardcover, New)
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A Call to the Sea - Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution (Hardcover, New)
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Charles Stewart's life of sailing and combat on the high seas
rivals that of Patrick O'Brien's fictional hero, Jack Aubrey.
Stewart held more sea commands (11) than any other U.S. Navy
captain and served longer (63 years) than any officer in American
naval history. He commanded every type of warship, from sloop to
ship-of-the-line, and served every president from John Adams to
Abraham Lincoln. Born in Philadelphia during the American
Revolution, Stewart met President Washington and went to sea as a
cabin boy on a merchantman before age thirteen. In March 1798, at
age nineteen, he received a naval commission one month before the
Department of the Navy was established. Stewart went on to an
illustrious naval career: Thomas Jefferson recognized his
Mediterranean exploits during the Barbary Wars, Stewart advised
James Madison at the outset of the War of 1812, and Stewart trained
many future senior naval officers - including David Porter, David
Dixon Porter, and David G. Farragut - in three wars. He served as a
pallbearer at President Lincoln's funeral. Stewart cemented his
reputation as commander of the Navy's most powerful frigate, the
USS Constitution. more naval engagements. Undefeated in battle,
including defeating the British warships Cyane and Levant
simultaneously, both ship and captain came to be known as Old
Ironsides. Few sailors in U.S. history approach Stewart's length of
service to the Navy. In 1798, at the age of nineteen, he was
commissioned a lieutenant on board the frigate USS United States.
Eight years later he was promoted to captain. He would continue to
serve throughout the nineteenth century, surrendering his final
command of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1860, but in 1861 offering
to serve yet again when the Union was threatened by secession... No
captain of the Constitution--arguably the most famous American
warship in U.S. history--commanded her for a longer period in war
not through more naval engagements than Charles Stewart, who would
in his own lifetime also come to be known by the Constitution's
moniker--'Old Ironsides.' His ability to survive controversy and
surmount disappointment and setbacks mirrored the Constitution's
ability to repel enemy shot off her hull. Berube and John Rodgaard
have produced the first full-length biography of one of the US
Navy's earliest heroes.
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