Lincoln's Trident : The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Browning, Robert M. Jr., 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Farragut, David Glasgow, > 1801-1870.
Farragut, David Glasgow, > 1801-1870 > Military leadership.
United States. > Navy. > West Gulf Squadron.
United States. > Navy.
United States. > Navy > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Military operations, Naval.
Command of troops.
Blockade.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
United States > Gulf Coast.
United States.
Mississippi River Valley.
Gulf of Mexico.
Mexique, Golfe du > Histoire navale > 19e siecle.
Mexique, Côte du golfe du (États-Unis) > Histoire navale > 19e siecle.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Operations navales.
Mexico, Gulf of > History, Naval > 19th century.
Gulf Coast (U.S.) > History, Naval > 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Blockades.
Naval history.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 (Panama City), Florida to the Rio Grande River. As with the Navy's blockade squadrons operating in the Atlantic, the mission of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron was to cripple the South's economy by halting imports and disrupting cotton exports, the South's main source of hard currency. The bloc.
Physical Description:1 online resource (714 pages).
ISBN:9780817387785

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