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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... Sails to Steam : The First Phase ( 1837- 1845 ) 73 86 110 IX . Naval Policy , Manifest Destiny , and Slave Politics ( 1845-1861 ) X. The Civil War : Strategic Lessons and Technical Progress ( 1861-1865 ) XI . Last Years of the Old Navy ...
... sailing ships in which John Paul Jones and other Revolutionary captains had challenged the over- whelming sea power of Great Britain . The ten dreadnoughts which steamed slowly up the Bay on that December morning nearly one hundred and ...
... sails which still distinguished cruisers of the Old Navy in the decade following the Civil War . Instead of muzzle - loading guns , mostly smooth - bores , he would have discovered new breech - loading rifles , firing shells weighing ...
... sailing under licenses issued by a belligerent govern- ment . Hundreds of such vessels were fitted out in America , to raid and plunder the merchant shipping of the British Empire . The profits of this business went to the owners and ...
... sail , were peculiarly unfavorable . The British Admiralty's traditional reliance upon New England for first - class spars , and its failure to develop other sources of supply , quickly reduced the Royal Navy to dire straits when ...