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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... water - borne transport was nearly everywhere decisive . Under these conditions block- ade of a country's ports could be a paralyzing experience . Furthermore , it was generally quicker and cheaper in those days to travel around Europe ...
... waters , in effect “ enveloped " the " world promontory " of Eurasia " which stands forward to the Cape of Good Hope from between the [ island of ] Britain and Japan . " Or , in Admiral Lord Fisher's even more colorful metaphor ...
... waters.1 A second conditioning factor was the economic importance and political power of maritime interests in the Colonies . Maritime enterprises - foreign trade , intercolonial commerce , whaling , and the fisheries - engaged a large ...
... waters . And they utterly failed to frighten the British government into suing for peace . Command of the sea , on the other hand , gave Great Britain a tremendous advantage . The British forces enjoyed a mobility denied to those of the ...
... waters to the French fleet of Admiral Comte de Grasse , and this rendered possible the capture of General Cornwallis's army at Yorktown.18 14 W. M. James , The British Navy in Adversity ( 1926 ) , p . 423 . 15 Captain A. T. Mahan , The ...