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Author : James Fenimore Cooper
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Cruise of the Somers written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Fenimore Cooper
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Cruise of the Somers written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Snow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982185465
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Sailing the Graveyard Sea written by Richard Snow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known event that cost three innocent young men their lives—part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian. On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted mutineers were being held under guard, but three had been hanged: Boatswain’s Mate Samuel Cromwell, Seaman Elisha Small, and Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, whose father was the secretary of war, John Spencer. Eighteen-year-old Philip Spencer, according to Mackenzie, had been the ringleader who encouraged the crew to seize the ship and become pirates, raping and pillaging their way across the old Spanish Main. And while the young man might have been a rebel fascinated by pirates, it soon became clear the order that condemned the three men had no legal basis. And worse, that perhaps a mutiny had never really occurred, and that the ship might instead have been seized by a creeping hysteria that ended in the sacrifice of three innocents. Months of accusations and counteraccusations were followed by a highly public court martial which put Mackenzie on trial for his life, and a storm of anti-Navy sentiment drew the attention of the leading writers of the day (Washington Irving thought Mackenzie a hero; James Fenimore Cooper damned him with a ferocity that still stings). But some good did come out of it: public disgust with Mackenzie’s training cruise gave birth to Annapolis, the place that within a century, would produce the greatest navy the world had ever known. Vividly told and filled with tense action based on court martial transcripts, Snow’s masterly account of this all-but-forgotten episode is naval history at its finest.
Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197575226
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Curse of the Somers written by James P. Delgado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy's greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact The greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the U.S. brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and his co-conspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea. The repercussions of those acts brought headlines, scandal, a fistfight at a cabinet meeting, a court martial, ruined lives, lost reputations, and tales of a haunted ship bound for the devil and lost tragically at sea with many of its crew. The Somers affair led to the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy and it remains the Navy's only acknowledged mutiny in its history. The story also inspired Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Billy Budd. Others connected to the Somers included Commodore Perry, a relation and defender of the Somers' captain Mackenzie; James Fenimore Cooper, whose feud with the captain, dating back to the War of 1812, resurfaced in his reportage of the affair; and Raphael Semmes, the Somers' last caption who later served in the Confederate Navy. The Curse of the Somers is a thorough recreation of this classic tale, told with the help of recently uncovered evidence. Written by a maritime historian and archaeologist who helped identify the long-lost wreck and subsequently studied its sunken remains, this is a timeless tale of life and death at sea. James P. Delgado re-examines the circumstances, drawing from a rich historical record and from the investigation of the ship's sunken remains. What surfaces is an all-too-human tale that resonates and chills across the centuries.
Author : Buckner Melton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416595929
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book A Hanging Offense written by Buckner Melton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutiny on the Bounty is one of history's greatest naval stories—yet few know the similar tale from America's own fledgling navy in the dying days of the Age of Sail, a tale of mutiny and death at sea on an American warship. In 1842, the brig-of-war Somers set out on a training cruise for apprentice seamen, commanded by rising star Alexander Mackenzie. Somers was crammed with teenagers. Among them was Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, a disturbed youth and a son of the U.S. Secretary of War. Buying other crew members' loyalty with pilfered tobacco and alcohol, Spencer dreamed up a scheme to kill the officers and turn Somers into a pirate ship. In the isolated world of a warship, a single man can threaten the crew's discipline and the captain's authority. But one of Spencer's followers warned Mackenzie, who arrested the midshipman and chained him and other ringleaders to the quarterdeck. Fearing efforts to rescue the prisoners, officers had to stay awake in round-the-clock watches. Steering desperately for land, sleep-deprived and armed to the teeth, battling efforts to liberate Spencer, Somers's captain and officers finally faced a fateful choice: somehow keep control of the vessel until reaching port—still hundreds of miles away—or hang the midshipman and his two leading henchmen before the boys could take over the ship. The results shook the nation. A naval investigation of the affair turned into a court-martial and a state trial and led to the founding of the Naval Academy to provide better officers for the still-young republic. Mackenzie's controversial decision may have inspired Herman Melville's great work Billy Budd. The story of Somers raises timeless questions still disturbing in twenty-first-century America: the relationship between civil and military law, the hazy line between peace and war, the battle between individual rights and national security, and the ultimate challenge of command at sea.
Author : United States. Navy. Courts of Inquiry. Somers (Brig) 1842-43
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry Appointed to Inquire Into the Intended Mutiny on Board the United States Brig of War Somers, on the High Seas written by United States. Navy. Courts of Inquiry. Somers (Brig) 1842-43 and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip James McFarland
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sea Dangers written by Philip James McFarland and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Slidell MacKenzie
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344459368
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Case of the Somer's Mutiny written by Alexander Slidell MacKenzie and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Bainbridge. Somers. Shaw. Shubrick. Preble written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Bainbridge. Somers. Shaw. Shubrick. Preble. (252 p.) written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : urzeni yayınevi
ISBN 13 : 6057941705
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann and published by urzeni yayınevi. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella “Death in Venice” embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between love and suffering, and the conflict between the artist and his inner self. Mann’s handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.
Author : Paul M. Somers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738532080
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers written by Paul M. Somers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for use as aircraft carrier training during World War II. Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qualified 17,800 pilots for aircraft carrier operation. Training the pilots on either the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean would have exposed the training ships to the danger of submarine attack, while requiring the escort of fighting ships that were needed elsewhere. It would also have involved arming and armoring the ships used for training. Commander R.F. Whitehead came up with an idea that solved all of these problems. He suggested doing the training on the protected waters of the Great Lakes. The USS Wolverine and the USS Sable were chosen and thus became the only fresh water, paddle-wheeled, coal-fired aircraft carriers in the history of the world. Author Paul M. Somers shares his collection of vintage photos and a lifetime of research to detail the history of these two great vessels-from their life as cruise ships to their contributions to the war effort and then to their eventual scrapping.
Author : Agnes C. Doyle
Publisher : Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy written by Agnes C. Doyle and published by Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press. This book was released on 1906 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Somers
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316179752
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Terminal State written by Jeff Somers and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avery Cates is an army man. Between the army's new dental plan and a set of first class augments, he's been given a second chance - albeit a quick one. When a corrupt officer decides to make some money on the side by selling new recruits, Cates finds himself in uncharted territory. Sold to the highest bidder, his visions of escape and revenge quickly come to an end when he realizes who's bought him - and for what. Because the high bidder is Canny Orel himself. And he wants Cates to do one last job as the System slides into chaos. Cates will have one shot at getting back at Canny - but this time, Canny is holding all the cards.
Author : Molly Elliot Seawell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019874806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Twelve Naval Captains written by Molly Elliot Seawell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thrilling account of twelve of history's most remarkable naval captains, including Admiral Nelson, John Paul Jones, and Francis Drake. Through exciting tales of battles and victories at sea, readers can gain an appreciation for the bravery, skill, and strategic thinking that made these captains legends. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Harold D Langley
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612517757
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Social Reform in the United States Navy, 1798-1862 written by Harold D Langley and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades before the American Civil War various political, social, and religious groups agitated for reforms in American society that would be in keeping with its professed democratic and national principles. One such organization was the American Seaman’s Friend Society, which lobbied for improvements in the enlistment, discipline, and treatment of sailors in the Merchant Marine and the Navy. Their causes were embraced by some naval officers, members of Congress, and a few Secretaries of the Navy. This history explores the circumstances and people in and out of the Navy who eventually convinced Congress to enact reforms to improve the conditions of service of naval enlisted men and to lay the foundation for a career enlisted force.
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Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
