The Long Road to Annapolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Road to Annapolis write by William P. Leeman. This book was released on 2010. The Long Road to Annapolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding. --from publisher description
The Long Road for Home
The Long Road for Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Road for Home write by Henry C. Lind. This book was released on 1992. The Long Road for Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is primarily based on a collection of letters written by four young farmboy soldiers during the Civil War. The purpose of the book, through the letters, is to give some insights into the soldiers' personal thoughts, worries, moods, sufferings, and problems. Illustrated.
To Master the Boundless Sea
To Master the Boundless Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Master the Boundless Sea write by Jason W. Smith. This book was released on 2018-04-13. To Master the Boundless Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.
Inside the US Navy of 1812–1815
Inside the US Navy of 1812–1815 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside the US Navy of 1812–1815 write by William S. Dudley. This book was released on 2021-04-20. Inside the US Navy of 1812–1815 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What did it take—logistically and operationally—for the small and underfunded US Navy to face the battle-hardened Royal Navy in the War of 1812? Find out in this book, the magnum opus of one of the deans of American naval history. When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings of the US Navy Department during the conflict, which lasted until 1815. What did it take, he asks, for the US Navy to build, fit-out, man, provision, and send fighting ships to sea for extended periods of time during the War of 1812? When the British blockade of 1813–14 severely constrained American sea trade, reducing the government's income and closing down access to American seaports, the navy was forced to innovate: to make improvements through reforms, to redeploy personnel, and to strengthen its industrial capacity. Highlighting matters of supply, construction, recruitment, discipline, medical care, shipbuilding, and innovation, Dudley helps readers understand the navy's successes and failures in the war and beyond. He also presents the logistics of the war in relation to fleet actions on the lakes and selected ship actions on the oceans, stresses the importance of administration in warfighting, and shows how reforms and innovations in those areas led to a stronger, more efficient navy. Refuting the idea that the United States "won" the war, Dudley argues that the conflict was at best a stalemate. Drawing on twenty-five years of archival research around the world, Inside the US Navy of 1812–1815 will leave readers with a better appreciation of how the navy contributed strategic value to the nation's survival in the conflict and assisted in bringing the war to an honorable end. This book will appeal to scholars and students of naval and military history, veterans, current officers, and maritime-oriented history buffs.
American Naval History, 1607-1865
American Naval History, 1607-1865 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Naval History, 1607-1865 write by Jonathan R. Dull. This book was released on 2012-12-01. American Naval History, 1607-1865 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 day is the subject of American Naval History, 1607–1865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy. A wide-ranging yet concise survey of the U.S. Navy from the colonial era through the Civil War, the book draws on American, British, and French history to reveal how navies reflect diplomatic, political, economic, and social developments and to show how the foundation of America’s future naval greatness was laid during the Civil War. Award-winning author Jonathan R. Dull documents the remarkable transformation of the U.S. Navy between 1861 and 1865, thanks largely to brilliant naval officers like David Farragut, David D. Porter, and Andrew Foote; visionary politicians like Abraham Lincoln and Gideon Welles; and progressive industrialists like James Eads and John Ericsson. But only by understanding the failings of the antebellum navy can the accomplishments of Lincoln’s navy be fully appreciated. Exploring such topics as delays in American naval development, differences between the U.S. and European fleets, and the effect that the country’s colonial past had on its naval policies, Dull offers a new perspective on both American naval history and the history of the developing republic.
