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William Sowden Sims
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The Victory at Sea
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The Victory at Sea
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History. Wartime commander, tactical innovator, military educator, iconoclastic troublemaker, Pulitzer Prize winner-those categories have only come together in a single military leader in American history. They all accurately describe Admiral William S. Sims (1858-1936), Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters during World War I. Sims spent nearly an entire career rocking the boat and challenging the conventional wisdom, and yet he ended up in London in one of the most important naval missions in history as the U.S. Navy's commander responsible for coordinating the war with First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John Jellico and the allies. Part operational...
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Correspondence, letters sent and received, 1876-1925, of William S. Sims and his wife, Anne Hitchcock Sims. Typescript copies of personal letters sent to his parents, siblings, friends, and wife comment on his ship and shore assignments, including countries visited and their political situations, family matters, shipboard life and daily routine, social life in port, rebellions in the Caribbean and Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895, acquaintances and contacts, naval policy, torpedo and gunnery practice. Daily letters from Anne Sims to William Sims discuss family matters, naval affairs, and politics, and include diaries of their children's activities. Letters sent and received of Anne H. Sims and her sisters Sarah Hitchcock Shepley and Margaret Hitchcock. Photographs are of the Sims family. Miscellany includes newspaper clippings and a poem.
VICTORY AT SEA Y WILLIAM SOWDE
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The Victory at Sea
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Navigation Journal of William Sims Aboard USS Saratoga, 1890s
William Sowden Sims was born in 1858 and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1880. He was naval attache to Paris, St. Petersburg and Madrid, 1897-1900, naval aide to President Roosevelt, 1908-1909, Co, USS Minnesota, 1909-1911, CO, Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic, 1913-1915, CO, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, 1917-1918 and president of the Naval War College, 1917, 1919-1922.
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