# Duel Between the First Ironclads

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- Book: [Duel Between the First Ironclads](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-davies/duel-between-the-first-ironclads) ([Duel Between the First Ironclads.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-davies/duel-between-the-first-ironclads.md))
- Authors: [William Davies](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-davies)
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0781-750-1
- Published: 2012-05-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

One was called " a tin can on a shingle"; the other, " a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U. S. S. Monitor and the C. S. S. Virginia...