Rise of American Naval PowerPrinceton University Press, 08/12/2015 - 422 من الصفحات Attempts to assemble the historic pattern of contributing factors which shaped the course of American naval development from 1776 to 1918. |
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... President Theodore Roosevelt ( 1901–1909 ) . Oversea possessions and world politics projected the threat of American naval power into the geographic spheres of other Great Powers , especially Japan . The unprecedented development of the ...
... President Jefferson ( 1801– 1809 ) , and recurrently thereafter was to disturb American naval policy . Privateering supplemented , and in the end virtually sup- Paullin , Navy of the Revolution , pp . 81-5 ; and Letters of Members of ...
... President Washington's first term ( 1789-1793 ) , but Congress took no action until 1794 , when a new wave of Barbary piracy enabled the Federalists to force the issue . With that problem on the way to solution , attention shifted to ...
... President and Congress might follow the old European custom of paying blackmail to the Barbary Powers . They might hire some European Power to provide naval protection for American shipping . Or they might fit out a naval force of their ...
... President's signature , and became law on March 27 , 1794.28 22 See , in particular , James Madison ( Va . ) , Abraham Clark ( N. J. ) , William B. Giles ( Va . ) , ibid . , pp . 433-4 , 436-7 , 438 , 446-7 , 486-91 . 28 See , in ...