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| Title | Fleet Tactics Under Steam Making of America |
| Author | Foxhall Alexander Parker |
| Publisher | D. Van Nostrand, 1870 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Dec 2005 |
| Length | 250 pages |
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