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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... 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 the ...
... Jefferson's penetrating analysis of the naval situation of the United States in future wars with European powers . “ To aim at such a navy as the greater nations of Europe possess , " he wrote in 1781 , “ would be a foolish and wicked ...
... Jefferson to Washington , Dec. 4 , 1788 , The Writings of Thomas Jefferson ( P. L. Ford's ed . , 1892-1899 ) , Vol . V , pp . 56 , 58. And see , in general S. F. Bemis , Diplomatic History of the United States ( 1936 ) , Chap . V. 2 See ...
... Jefferson who served as Minister to France from 1785 to 1789 . In theory , Jefferson favored abandoning the sea and directing the energies of his countrymen to agriculture . But , he frankly admitted , " We are not free to decide this ...
... Jefferson to Adams , July 11 , 1786 , The Writings of Thomas Jefferson ( H. A. Washington's ed . , 1853–1854 ) , Vol . I , pp . 591–2 ; and see also Jefferson to Monroe , Aug. 11 , 1786 , Writings of Jefferson ( Ford's ed . ) , Vol . IV ...