Editing George Dewey (section)

===Battle of Manila Bay===
{{Main|Battle of Manila Bay}}

[[File:USS Olympia with Dewey at Battle of Manila bay DSCN4191 at Vermont State.jpg|thumb|Detail of a painting in the [[Vermont State House]] depicting Dewey on {{USS|Olympia|C-6|6}} during the [[Battle of Manila Bay]]]]

On April 27, 1898, he sailed from China aboard {{USS|Olympia|C-6|6}} with orders to attack the Spanish at [[Manila Bay]]. He stopped at the mouth of the bay late the night of April 30, and the following morning he gave the order to attack at first light, saying the now famous words "You may fire when you are ready, [[Charles Vernon Gridley|Gridley]]." True to his word, Dewey defeated the Spanish in a battle lasting just six hours. The Asiatic Squadron sank or captured the entire Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral [[Patricio Montojo y Pasarón]] and silenced the shore batteries at [[Manila]], with the loss of only one life on the American side from a heart attack.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McSherry |first1=Patrick |title=The Battle of Manila Bay (Cavite) |url=https://www.spanamwar.com/mbay |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117103701/https://www.spanamwar.com/mbay |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 17, 2021 |website=spanamwar.com |publisher=The Spanish American War Centennial |access-date=October 18, 2022 }}</ref>

{{Blockquote
| quote = Didn't Admiral Dewey do wonderfully well? I got him the position out there in Asia last year, and I had to beg hard to do it; and the reason I gave was that we might have to send him to Manila. And we sent him — and he went!
| source = Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Wingate Sewall, May 4, 1898<ref name="i4tGV" />
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