Lincoln's trident : the West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War /
In Lincoln's Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union's naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The hydra of secession
- All was saved but our honor
- Beauty and booty
- Come and take the city
- These people can do nothing without gunboats
- The importance of a vigorous blockade
- Bearding the lion in his den
- We have no vessel of sufficient speed
- Every little bayou
- Misfortunes seldom come singly
- Give me wooden ships and iron hearts
- The black devil and the pup
- Where the devil is the wind to come from
- Heigh-ho! The Sabine Pass?
- The blockade must be kept up
- Notwithstanding all our watchfulness
- Anything is preferable than lying on our oars
- Go ahead sir
- You had better surrender
- Blockade running ... is at an end.