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Author : Hope S. Rider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934943123
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Valour Fore and Aft written by Hope S. Rider and published by . This book was released on 1987-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hope S. Rider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Valour Fore & Aft, Being the Adventures of the Continental Sloop Providence, 1775-1779, Formerly Flagship Katy of Rhode Island's Navy written by Hope S. Rider and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hope S. Rider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Valour Fore and Aft written by Hope S. Rider and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James C Bradford
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512615
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Command Under Sail written by James C Bradford and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining collection of essays takes a biographical approach to early American naval history. The period from 1775 to 1850 was a trying time for the infant navy, a time when much was demanded of individual officers. New in paperback, this book focuses not only on battles and ships but on the colorful men, such as Oliver Hazard Perry and Stephen Decatur, who helped shape the U.S. Navy in the age of sail. By viewing the era through the lives of the participants, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of America’s new navy and the roots of its traditions.
Author : Peter C. Baldwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226036022
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book In the Watches of the Night written by Peter C. Baldwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before skyscrapers and streetlights, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, new technologies began to light up the city. This text depicts the changing experiences of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors in the nocturnal city.
Author : Benjamin Armstrong
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080616316X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Small Boats and Daring Men written by Benjamin Armstrong and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones’s own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era’s conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work—with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors’ memoirs and diaries, and officers’ correspondence—is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twenty-first century.
Author : United States Naval Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute written by United States Naval Institute and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sylvia Brown
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480844187
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Grappling with Legacy written by Sylvia Brown and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode Island. Sylvia Brown has made a tremendous contribution in writing this wonderful book. It is clearly a labor of love, and we should all be grateful to her for it. Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, former President of Brown University A splendid work of history---an honest, clearly written, and solidly based account of the private and public lives through four centuries of one of Americas most important and fascinating families. Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize for History, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University What fuels a familys compulsion for philanthropy? Self-interest? A feeling of guilt? A sense of genuine altruism? Charitable giving is such an intrinsic part of American culture that its story deserves to be told, not in a dry, academic tome but through the tale of a colorful, multifaceted family. Since 1638, the Browns of Rhode Island have provided community leaders in one of the nations most idiosyncratic states. In the 18th century, they excelled at maritime commerce, were pioneers of the American industrial revolution, and adorned their hometown of Providence with public buildings, churches, and a university. In the 19th century, they pioneered the modern notion that universities can be forces for social good. And, in the 20th century, they sought to transform the human experience through great art and architecture. Over three hundred years, the Browns also wrestled with societys toughest issuesslavery, immigration, child labor, the dispossessedand with their own internal family tensions. Author Sylvia Brown tells the story of the ten generations of Browns that came before her with warmth and lucidity. Today, in an era of wealth creation and philanthropic innovation not seen since the Gilded Age, Grappling with Legacy provides fascinating insights into a unique aspect of Americas heritage.
Author : James C Bradford
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512623
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Quarterdeck and Bridge written by James C Bradford and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb collection of biographical essays tells the story of the U.S. Navy through the lives of the officers who forged its traditions. The essayists are leading naval historians who assess the careers of these men and their impact on the naval service, from the Continental Navy of the American Revolution to the nuclear Navy of the Cold War.
Author : Donald A. D'Amato
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738523699
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Warwick written by Donald A. D'Amato and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although known as the retail capital of Rhode Island, Warwick is much more than a conglomeration of shopping centers, malls, and industrial parks; it is a city marked by an extraordinary history and in many ways, serves as a mirror of the American experience. Like many communities across the United States, Warwick developed from a rural hamlet into a town distinguished by a variety of industries in the nineteenth century, attracting immigrants from across the globe desiring a new beginning within its mill villages. These industries brought wealth and opportunity, and paved the way for Warwick's transformation from small town to cosmopolitan center. Warwick: A City at the Crossroads is not a stale chronology, but is a work that breathes new life into the memorable characters and events that shaped the community's history over the past four centuries. Taking readers on an exciting journey through Warwick's past, this unique illustrated history begins with the first Narragansett Indian tribes that hunted amidst the virgin wilderness and details an evolving landscape touched by colonial settlement, wars, storms, depressions, resort development, and industrialization up through the present day. However, the true measure of a community is in its people, and Warwick possesses a remarkable cast of colorful characters, such as controversial city father, Samuel Gorton, Revolutionary War heroes Nathanael Greene and James Varnum, textile magnate Robert Knight, and scores of other distinct personalities, ranging from privateers and bootleggers to feared political bosses and industrial giants.
Author : American Association for State and Local History. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Program written by American Association for State and Local History. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian M. Stinson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439664218
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Newport Firsts written by Brian M. Stinson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newport, Rhode Island, has been a city of innovation since its beginning nearly four centuries ago. Some of the claims on a national level are true, while some have been greatly distorted over the years. The first law banning the importation of slaves in the colonies was enacted in the city, and the first Methodist church in the world with a steeple and bell is located here. But was the first female lighthouse keeper in America from here? Was Newport the first place where a medical lecture was given? Author and research historian Brian M. Stinson offers a chronological collection of vignettes detailing the city's many firsts.
Author : Charles Rappleye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743266889
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Sons of Providence written by Charles Rappleye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "American Mafioso" comes the story of the Brown brothers, leading slave merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, during the time of the American Revolution.
Author : Barbara A. Lynch
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book United States Naval History written by Barbara A. Lynch and published by Naval Historical Center. This book was released on 1993 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1666 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Fredriksen
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816074682
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary War Almanac written by John C. Fredriksen and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a day-by-day chronology of the people and events important to the American Revolution, this title provides a look at this historic time. It covers people, battles, and other details, and includes more than 130 maps, photographs, and illustrations pair with an index, a bibliography, cross-references, and a chronology.
Author : George E. Buker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493083694
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Penobscot Expedition written by George E. Buker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1779 the fledgling U.S. naval fleet suffered a catastrophic defeat against the British in the waters of the Penobscot Bay, losing forty ships in a battle that was expected to be a sure victory for the Americans. Commodore Dudley Saltonstall was blamed for the debacle and ultimately court-martialed for his ineptitude. In this groundbreaking book George E. Buker defends Saltonstall providing compelling evidence that he was not to blame for the loss and that in fact the court-martial was rigged against him. Buker’s conclusions foster a reassessment of Saltonstall’s naval strategies and shed new light on the political maneuvers of the time.
