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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... peace as well as in war ; 46 ( 3 ) the arguments of successive generations as to the size and kind of navy required to perform these functions ; " ( 4 ) the evolution of ideas as to the principles of naval strategy and warfare ; ' ( 5 ) ...
... peace as well as in war ; a collective entity with ships and men forged into an instrument of power through long association and constant training . The visitor from 1898 would have been astonished in 1918 also by the greatly enhanced ...
... peace . Command of the sea , on the other hand , gave Great Britain a tremendous advantage . The British forces enjoyed a mobility denied to those of the revolutionaries chiefly dependent upon 12 E. S. Maclay , A History of American ...
... peace . Even Morris felt compelled , in 1783 , after the close of the war , to withdraw his earlier recommendation . Congress gradually liquidated the improvised Revolutionary Navy . By the end of 1785 , all of the ships had been sold ...
... Peace Treaty of 1783 , to force Spain to open the lower reaches of the Mississippi River , and to secure access on more favorable terms to the home and colonial markets of the Great Powers.1 Without a navy , Con- gress could neither ...