Spanish-American War Correspondence of Capt. Charles Vernon Gridley and Harriet Vincent Gridley

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Spanish-American War, correspondence, Capt. Charles Vernon Gridley, Harriet Vincent Gridley, Thomas Boslooper, Gridley, history, Pennsylvania, navy

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Thomas Boslooper

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"Gridley" became an important name in American his- tory through Capt. Charles Vernon Gridley, the hero of the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898 in the Spanish American War. Commodore George Dewey gave him the immortalized order:


"You may fire when you are ready, Gridley."

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The Journal of Erie Studies, Fall 1`994, Vol. 23, No. 2
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