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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dull, Jonathan R., 1942- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
Collection:Studies in war, society, and the military.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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