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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... military capabilities and political leverages on a scale comparable to those wielded by Great Britain in the heyday of the Pax Britannica . We began to question these points shortly after The Rise was published . Some of our doubts are ...
... 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 British Isles . But right there the parallel ended ! Because the Atlantic Ocean is ...
... military and political instru- ment vis - à - vis the Great Powers overseas . At the same time , alternative opportunities already on the horizon went largely or completely unnoticed in Mahan's vision of the future . In the 1890's and ...
... military transports of Great Britain were viewed as a legitimate source of military supplies and other merchan- dise , desperately needed in the Colonies . And prospective profits from plundering this shipping appealed irresistibly to ...
... military transports carrying supplies to the British army in that city . Following the unsuccessful assault on Quebec , the same year , Congress sought to place a naval force upon Lake Champlain to resist the expected counter- offensive ...