American naval history, 1607-1865 : overcoming the colonial legacy /

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For its first eighty-five years, the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War of Independence and was mostly trapped in port by the end of the War of 1812. How this meager presence became the major naval power it remains to this da...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dull, Jonathan R., 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
Series:Studies in war, society, and the military.
Subjects:
To 1900
HISTORY > Military > Naval.
United States > History, Naval > To 1900.
États-Unis > Histoire navale > Jusqu'à 1900.
United States
Naval history
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The American colonies and the British Navy, 1607-1775
  • The war against Britain, 1775-1783
  • A new Navy fights France and the Barbary States, 1783-1805
  • A precarious neutrality ends in a second war against Britain, 1805-1815
  • Trade protection and war with Mexico, 1815-1861
  • The Civil Aar, 1861-1865
  • Epilogue.

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