Charles Vernon Gridley

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Charles Vernon Gridley was a United States Navy officer best known as Commodore George Dewey’s flag captain at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War, to whom Dewey addressed the famous order, “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.”

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Gridley-class destroyer namedAfter Charles Vernon Gridley