A Maker of Tradition: the Flag that brought Victory, Battle of Lake Erie, 1813
Preserved in Memorial Hall, United States Naval Academy. Courtesy of Curator, United States Naval Academy.

Vice Admiral, Lord Nelson
From the painting by John Hoppner in St. James' Palace. Copied from Mahan's "Life of Nelson." Courtesy of Little, Brown & Company.

John Paul Jones
From a rare print marked "Done from an original designed in Amsterdam." Courtesy of Curator, United States Naval Academy.

Stephen Decatur
From the painting by Thomas Sully.

Thomas Macdonough
From the painting by John Wesley Jarvis.

Matthew Calbraith Perry

Matthew Fontaine Maury
From a photograph taken about 1855.

John Adolphus Dahlgren
From a photograph taken on the U. S. Pawnee on blockade off Charleston, S. C.

David Glasgow Farragut
From his last photograph. Courtesy of the Navy Department Library.

David Dixon Porter

 p. xiv  Stephen Bleecker Luce
From a photograph.

Alfred Thayer Mahan
From the copyrighted photograph by Purdy, Boston.

George Dewey
From the copyrighted photograph by the Clinedinst Studio, Washington.

William Thomas Sampson
From the copyrighted photograph by Chickering.

William Sowden Sims
From a photograph. Courtesy of Office of Naval Records and Library, Navy Department.

Arrival of the American Battleships at Scapa Flow
From the painting by B. F. Gribble. Courtesy of the Navy Department Library.

The Wrecked NC‑3 Safe at Ponta Delgada
From a photograph. Courtesy of the Navy Department Library.

James S. P. Devereux
Official United States Marine Corps photograph. Courtesy of United States Marine Corps.

Wake Island (Last Pre_War Photograph)
Official United States Navy photograph. Courtesy of Office of Public Relations, Navy Department.

Attack on Wake Island by United States Naval Forces, 24 February, 1942
Official United States Navy photograph. Courtesy of Office of Public Relations, Navy Department.