“Its story, from US Navy service to Japanese capture and ... For 23 years, the Stewart would not return to the United States as she patrolled the Chinese coast, Philippines and other US ...

In April 1898, months of tension between the United States and Cuba ... Commodore Dewey and his U.S. Asiatic Squadron had defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. The official declaration of ...

Roosevelt greatly admired naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and supported his theory that the United States needed a modern navy to protect ... to command the Asiatic Squadron.