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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... hostile neighbors in North America , the United States was , from the perspective of military geog- raphy , as insular as Britain . Everything Mahan said about the advantages of insularity applied as much to the United States as to the ...
... hostility to Great Britain , should thus approach its climax in the return of the American battle squadrons from intimate association in a common cause with the world's first naval Power . In many ways the World War marked the final ...
... Hostile occupation of Chesapeake Bay , Delaware Bay , or the Hudson River , and their tributary waters , would disrupt overland com- munication which , though primitive , was vitally important in 1C . O. Paullin , The Navy of the ...
... Hostile possession of this thoroughfare would iso- late New England , and quite possibly result in irretrievable disaster to the Revolutionary cause . * NAVAL STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS The naval efforts of the Continental Congress ...
... hostile privateers and smaller men - of - war , and by convoying merchant vessels out to sea past the enemy's hovering warships . They cooperated to some extent with the Continental land forces around certain port towns . They attacked ...