UNDER OF NAP STEAM U.S. NAVY. BY exander FOXHALL A: PARKER, CAPTAIN U. S. NAVY. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND, PUBLISHER, N PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by D. VAN NOSTRAND, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. U. S. NAVY YARD, BOSTON, Sept. 22d, 1869. IN his preface to "Squadron Tactics under Steam," published early in 1864, the author remarked: "The 'Naval Warfare' of Sir Howard Douglas, and the Tactique Navale' of the French, are, at present, the only works on steam tactics deserving consideration." To these must now be added, "Nouvelles Bases de Tactique Navale," by Rear-Admiral Grégoire Boutakov, of the Russian Navy, a book of far greater scientific merit than anything that has preceded it. Believing, however, that a plain, practical work on this subject is still needed, the author has been encouraged to publish this volume, which is simply an adaptation of military to naval tactics, as put to the practical test during |