'**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!'

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'**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!'
Bill Federer recounts masterful faith of 19th century naval heroes, explorers
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William J. Federer is the author of "Change to Chains: The 6,000 Year Quest for Global Control" and "What Every American Needs to Know About the Quran: A History of Islam and the United States."
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Capturing last Confederate stronghold in Gulf of Mexico

“**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” yelled Admiral David Farragut, who had lashed himself atop the mainsail to see above the smoke.


His fleet of wooden ships with hulls wrapped in chains, and his four iron-clad monitors, were attacking Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay, Aug. 5, 1864.

When one of his ships, the Tecumseh, sank after hitting an underwater mine, called a torpedo, his fleet faltered in confusion.


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