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See also:SCHLEY, See also:WINFIELD See also:SCOTT (1839-1911) , See also:American See also:naval officer, was See also:born at Richfields, near See also:Frederick, See also:Maryland, on the 9th of See also:October 1839. He graduated at the See also:United States Naval See also:Academy in 186o, and during the See also:Civil See also:War was in active service as a See also:lieutenant until See also:July 1863. In 1867-1869 he was an instructor in the U.S. Naval Academy. He took See also:part in See also:Rear-See also:Admiral See also:John See also:Rodgers's expedition to See also:Korea in 1871, and was See also:adjutant of the American See also:land forces in the attack on the Korean forts on Salee See also:river on the loth and 11th of See also:June. In 1872-1875 he was See also:head of the See also:department of See also:modern See also:languages in the U.S. Naval Academy. He was promoted See also:commander in June 1874; in 1876-'879 commanded the " See also:Essex," most of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in the See also:South See also:Atlantic, and then until October 1883 was inspector of the second lighthouse See also:district. In See also:February 1884, after the failure in 1883 of the second expedition (under Lieut. E. A. Garlington) for the See also:relief of the See also:Lady See also:Franklin See also:Bay Expedition commanded by Lieut. A. W. Greely, Schley was appointed to command the third Greely relief expedition; and near Cape See also:Sabine on the 22nd of June rescued Greely and six (of his twenty-four) companions. He was See also:chief of the See also:bureau of equipment and' recruiting
in 1885-1889; and in See also:April 1888 was promoted See also:captain. He commanded the " See also:Baltimore " in Rear-Admiral See also:George See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown's See also:squadron off the See also:coast of See also:Chile in 1891. See also:Early in 1892 he was again transferred to the lighthouse bureau, and until February 1895 was inspector of the third lighthouse district; and in 1897-1898 he was a member (and chairman) of the Lighthouse See also:Board. He was commissioned See also:commodore on the 6th of February 1898, and on the 24th of See also:March, although lowest on the See also:list of commodores, he was put in command of the " flying squadron," with the " See also:Brooklyn " as his See also:flagship, for service in the war with See also:Spain. The command of the See also:fleet off See also:Santiago de See also:Cuba was taken from Schley by Acting Rear-Admiral W. T. See also:Sampson on the 1st of June. In the See also:battle of Santiago on the 3rd of July Schley, in Sampson's See also:absence, was the See also:senior officer and the " Brooklyn " did especial service, with the " See also:Oregon," in over-hauling and disabling the " Cristobal See also:Colon." On the loth of See also:August Schley was advanced six See also:numbers and was made rear-admiral for " eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle." On the 19th he was appointed a See also:commissioner of the United States to arrange the evacuation of See also:Porto Rico. When the See also:Navy Department recommended that Sampson be promoted eight numbers and over the head of Schley, who had ranked him for See also:forty-two years, there was a See also:bitter controversy, and the See also:Senate did not confirm the promotion. On the 14th of April 1899 Schley was commissioned rear-admiral, ranking as See also:major-See also:general. In See also:November 1899 he was put in command of the South Atlantic Station, and in October 1901 he retired from active service upon reaching the See also:age limit. At his See also:request, because of the charges made against him in E. S. Maclay's See also:History of the Navy, a See also:court of inquiry investigated Schley's conduct before and during the battle of Santiago; on the 13th of See also:December 1901 the court pronounced Schley guilty of delay in locating See also:Cervera's squadron, of carelessness in endangering the " See also:Texas " by a See also:peculiar " See also:loop " See also:movement or turn of the "Brooklyn" which blanketed the See also:fire of other American vessels, and of disobedience to a departmental See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the 25th of May, but it recommended that no See also:action be taken. Admiral Schley filed a protest against the court's findings, which, however, were approved by the Secretary of the Navy.
Schley wrote, with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell Soley, The See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
Rescue of Greely (New See also:York, 1885). See Schley's Forty-five Years under the See also:Flag (New York, 1904).
End of Article: SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT (1839-1911)
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