PUBLISHED BY LEA & BLANCHARD; 



COOPER'S NAYAL HISTORY; 



A NEW EDITION. 



A N AVAL H I STORY 



OP 



THE UNITED STATES, 



BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ. 



In Two handsome Volumes, bound in embossed cloth. 



A new Edition, revised and corrected, with an Index to the volumes. 



" If there was one man before all others, whom we could have selected for this 

 task, that man was Mr. Cooper. In all things relative to the Navv he writes with 

 enthusiasm. The ocean is his element. With the glorious career of the service in 

 which his youth was passed, he takes a laudable pride, and he betravs in every page 

 the earnest desire of his heart to make its merits known to the world. In dwelling 

 upon the achievements of our young Navy, the pure American fire of his genius once 

 more blazes out as brightly as ever. In the interest which he has thrown around 

 the cruises and combats of our ships of war, we trace the master hand which drew 

 the Pilot; nor will many chapters in this work yield in point of romantic interest 

 to any of his sea-novels. Many of the naval actions of the Revolution, and especially 

 the cruisings of Paul Jones, and the desperate fight between the Bon-Homme 

 Richard and the Serapis, have all the richness of romance, with the method and 

 accuracy of strict history." — American TVaveUer. 



" The History of the Navy of the United States from the earliest period of its 

 existence, in the dawn of the Revolution, through all its discouragements, reverses, 

 trials, and glory, was a task worthy of the author, who had established a reputation', 

 as a describer of nautical events, superior to thai of any other living writer. The' 

 task has been so performed as to leave nothing to desire. No work of higher interest 

 has been published in the United States for many years. The glories of American 

 victories are fully portrayed, whilst, at the same time, care is taken, in every case, 

 to exhibit a fair and impartial estimate of the strength and appointments of anta- 

 gonists' vessels or fleets. In this way the work acquires the credit due to a grave 

 and impartial hi^Jtory." — Baltimore Chronicle. 



" We have perused this history with no little curiosity and with great interest. 

 Considering the brief existence of the American marine, its annals are more event- 

 ful, more romantic, and more various, than any in existence. Nothing can surpass 

 the energy which enabled the United States to form an effective navy, at a time 

 when they could hardly be said to have had a political existence, and when they 

 were beset by greater difiiculties than any which an infant nation had ever yet to 

 encounter. This consideration has animated the present historian, whose enthusiasm 

 seems to be kindled by his office of chronicler, even more than when he formerly 

 sought inspiration from the same source in constructing his famous stories of the 

 sea. Altogether this history is a valuable one, and cannot fail to pass into universal 

 circulation. The incidents which took place in the naval war with Tripoli, are 

 grander and more heroic than any thing in the circle of romance, and are detailed 

 with all the vigour and animation of Mr. Cooper's genius." — Britiak J^aval and 

 Military Magazine. 



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