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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... merchant shipping 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 ...
... merchant shipping by making war on hostile privateers and smaller men - of - war , and by convoying merchant vessels out to sea past the enemy's hovering warships . They cooperated to some extent with the Continental land forces around ...
... merchant shipping of the British Empire . The profits of this business went to the owners and crews , making service in the privateers far more popular than in the Continental Navy . Indeed , the resulting difficulty in procuring seamen ...
... merchant shipping in the Mediterranean.2 In the event of another war among the European Powers , regarded as imminent during these troubled years , it seemed highly doubt- ful if the Continental Congress would be able , without any ...
... merchant marine which would , he held , " form a school for seamen , " and " lay the foundation of a navy . " Then there was a provision of the congressional Act of 1789 , creating the War Department , which stipulated that the Secre ...