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Albert Beveridge: The American Navy, ship for ship, officer for officer, man for man, had proved itself superior to the British Navy, the…

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The American Navy, ship for ship, officer for officer, man for man, had proved itself superior to the British Navy, the very name of which had hitherto been mentioned only in terror or admiration of its unconquerable might.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge asserts the superiority of the American Navy over the British Navy during the war.

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