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most powerful fleet ever assembled except on a few occasions in the 

 English Channel. Eear-Admiral Seaton Schroeder, U.S. 1ST., is in 

 command. 



From the Netherlands comes the cruiser Utrecht, commanded by 

 Captain G. P. van Hecking Colenbrander, E.N.N., and the replica of 

 the Half Moon. Germany sends the cruisers Dresden, Hertha, ViMoria 

 Luisa and Bremen, under the command of Grand Admiral H. L. B. von 

 Koster, retired, of the Imperial Navy. The English squadron will con- 



The Purchase of Manhattan Island. 



sist of the cruisers Inflexible, Drake, Argyll and Duke of Edinburgh, 

 commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Seymour, of the Eoyal Navy. 

 France will be represented by two battleshi]3s, the Liberte and the 

 Justice, under the command of Vice Admiral Le Pord. From Italy 

 come the cruiser Etruria and the schoolship Etna, on board of which 

 will be the cadets of the Eoyal Naval Academy — the future officers of 

 the Italian nav} r . 



Latin America will also participate in the parade, Mexico being 

 represented by the gun-boat Bravo, commanded by Captain Manuel E. 

 Izaguirre ; Cuba, by the revenue-cutter Hatuey; the Argentine Eepublic, 

 by the warship Presidente Sarmiento, and Guatemala, by a coast- 

 patrol boat. 



An immense fleet of seagoing and coastwise merchant vessels, steam- 

 boats, ferryboats, steam yachts, motor boats, tugs and steam lighters, 

 sailing crafts, police boats, wrecking boats, fire boats, hospital boats, 

 naval-militia vessels, steam cutters and launches, United States revenue- 

 cutters and other craft, including the Clermont and Half Moon, will 

 assemble in ten squadrons in the Harbor, in the vicinity of the Brooklyn, 



