Commodore Robert F. Stockton, 1795–1866: Protean Man for a Protean Nation
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Chapter 1:  Educating Stockton
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Authors, on Naval Tactics (1806).30 At the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry quoted Nelson, not Jones, when he enjoined his subordinates on the eve of battle, “If you lay your enemy close alongside, you cannot be out of your place!”31 A year later, at the battle of Plattsburg Bay on Lake Champlain (September 11, 1814),

Figure 1. Benjamin West's The Death of Nelson (1808).32