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Great Naval Review Opens New York Harbor Spectacle
Hampton Roads hosted the great naval rendezvous as ships from around the world gathered for the opening of the Columbian Exposition. US and foreign fleets, led by the Philadelphia under Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, paraded before President Cleveland while Chicago awaited the exposition.
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Hampton Roads
Gotham
Samuel
New York Harbor
Chicago
Fort Monroe
Monitor
Merrimac
Nueva Espana
Xerxes
Sebastopol
Key Weat
New York
Lancaster
Pacific
Fort Macon
Port Royal
West Gulf
Mobile Bay
Brooklyn
Sandy Hook
Hamilton
Wadsworth
America
Philadelphia
Bancroft Gherard
A. 8. Barker
United States Navy
Bancroft Gherardi
Alvert
Barker
Baltimore
G. W. Sumner
San Francisco
J. C. Watson
Charleston
H. F. Picking
John G. Walker
John F. McGlensey
Miantonomah
Montgomery Sicard
Vesuvius
Seaton Schroeder
Kearsarge
Crowninshield
Concord
Edwin White
Atlanta
F. J. Higginson
Newark
A. E. K. Benham
Silas Casey
Bennington
B. Bradford
Yorktown
Frank Wildes
Bancroft
A. Walker
Cushing
F. F. Fletcher
Constellation
C. F. Goodrich
Yantic
Samuel Belden
Manded
Duke of Veragua
Spain
J. D. Hopkins
Blake
Kornakoff
Grand Duke Alexis
Maguaghi
Capt
Amarel
Portugal
Alfonso de Albuquerque
Gherardi
Iampton Roads
Columbia
Cleveland
Great Republic
Chamber of Commerce
Europe
Asia
South America
New York Review
William
Germany
United States
Western Hemisphere