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An investigation of Porter's campaign against pirates in the West Indies.

This 1884 investigation into the two failed attempts to relieve the Greely Arctic Expedition led to success later that year.

Excerpt from Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry Convened at the City of Washington, D. C., On the Fifth Day of May, Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Four Also a communication from the Secretary of War, dated Washington, April 22, 1884, and addressed to the President of the United States, which was read, and will be found in the Appendix to the record, marked Exhibit B. Also a communication from Mr. A. E. Bateman, dated Washington, May 6, 1884, which was read, and will be found in the Appendix to the record, marked Exhibit C. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.