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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... seaboard . The configuration of that seaboard rendered the Colonies highly vulnerable . Hostile occupation of Chesapeake Bay , Delaware Bay , or the Hudson River , and their tributary waters , would disrupt overland com- munication ...
... seaboard . And they had grasped the equally 23 Paullin , Navy of the Revolution , pp . 242-3 . 24 " Notes on Virginia " in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson ( edited by H. A. Washington , 1853-1854 ) , Vol . VIII , pp . 413-14 ...
... seaboard and from the tidewater planting aristocracy of the South , 1 embraced precisely those groups whose spokesmen had cited the need of a Federal navy as one of the reasons for ratifying the Constitution . The prospect , therefore ...
... seaboard . Against such perils , the argument of cost had no validity . A navy was admittedly expensive and we did have a " very heavy debt ; but still it was better to bear debts than depredations . ' " 123 A resolution endorsing the ...
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