On the morning of August 5, 1864, Rear-Admiral Farragut, commanding the Gulf Blockading Squadron, entered Mobile Bay, passing between Forts Morgan and Gaines to engage the rebel ram Tennessee and the Confederate gunboats Selma, Morgan, Read more…
On a clear summer morning in 429 BC, the Athenian admiral Phormio cruised the northern coast of the Corinthian Gulf, stalking a Corinthian-led fleet sailing parallel to them along the southern coast. Phormio was based Read more…
In the summer of 210 BC, Publius Cornelius Scipio ‘the Younger’ sailed from the mouth of the Tiber to take command of the remnant of the Roman armies left in Iberia (Spain). He was young Read more…