Robert E. Lee

United States steamboat

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In Mississippi River: Development of the river’s commerce
…between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee . The latter won by dint of stripping out all unnecessary superstructure and taking on extra fuel supplies from tenders while steaming upriver at full speed. Yet even as the river was at its most flamboyant, the same westward expansion that had…
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