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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... struggle for armed security upon the sea is but the resumption of a process perceptible before the war , accelerated during and as a result of that struggle , and partially if temporarily arrested by the Washington Conference of 1921 ...
... struggle for supremacy upon the sea . The war in Europe destroyed the balance of power in the Far East , stimulated Japanese imperial- ism , and left the United States , at least temporarily , as the chief guardian of Western interests ...
... struggle . But there are at least three reasons for begin- ning at the Revolution in a study of the rise of American naval power . First , because sea power played so vital a part in the winning of American independence . Second ...
... struggle . Such , however , was not the case . They did , it is true , bring in much needed cargoes of military supplies and other merchandise which incidentally were usually sold at exorbitant prices.13 But American naval efforts ...
... struggle . For a brief period in 1781 , a combination of circumstances gave naval supremacy in American waters to the French fleet of Admiral Comte de Grasse , and this rendered possible the capture of General Cornwallis's army at ...