2-547-063 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

George Dewey, American admiral, 1898. Dewey (1837-1917) is best known for commanding the US Navy's Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898 during the Spanish-American War, destroying the Spanish Pacific Squadron. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book Publishers of America, 1898.