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A Short History of the American Navy (Classic Reprint)

Author : John R. Spears
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267653645
Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book A Short History of the American Navy (Classic Reprint) written by John R. Spears and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of the American Navy On December 22, 17 7 5, Congress made Esek Hopkins commander-in - chief of the new navy, with Dudley Salton stall, Abraham Whipple (he of the Gaspe' attack), Nicho las Biddle, and John Burroughs Hopkins, captains Of the four vessels in the order named. John Paul Jones was placed at the head of the list Of lieutenants and assigned to the Alfred. On the same day Jones went aboard his ship and in the presence of a number of the members of Congress hoisted the first naval ensign, the rattlesnake burgee, bearing the motto, Don't Tread on placing the ship in commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Short History of the United States Navy (Classic Reprint)

Author : George R. Clark
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265158074
Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book A Short History of the United States Navy (Classic Reprint) written by George R. Clark and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of the United States Navy This history owed its origin to the need of a work suit able in scope and treatment as a text-book for the midship men of the United States Naval Academy. Since, in a tentative form, it has been used by them with gratifying results, there is hope that it may prove of interest and value to others whose time for this subject is limited. It has been written with certain definite aims, the principal of which are the following: First, to present a record of exactly what happened, without personal, sectional, or national prejudice. Second, to regard naval events from the professional rather than the picturesque point of view; for example, to emphasize the maneuvering and gunnery in an action rather than the smoke and blood. Third, to suppress the trivial and bring o'ut the important, not neglecting the services of officers in time of peace. Fourth, to give, whenever possible, the original sources, such as letters from secretaries of the navy, and official reports of officers. These official reports, we feel, are of singular value. The fighter writes as he shoots - straight to the mark. He may be prejudiced in favor of his own ﬂag, but his account is usually more sportsmanlike than are the corresponding accounts of his countrymen who were not there to see, and has a unique interest that no rewriting ever attains. In the following pages will be found reports by both friends and foes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The History of the Navy of the United States of America, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330530627
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Navy of the United States of America, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Navy of the United States of America, Vol. 1 of 2 While biographies of naval men are usually replete with interest, on account of the hazards and stirring incidents of the sea, few general records of nautical events have been found to attract attention, beyond the value that is attached to naked facts. If such has been the case with most of the histories of even the marine of Great Britain, a service that admits of the unity and interest that belong to the operations of fleets, still more may it be looked for in the records of the isolated and simpler incidents of a navy like that of the United States. The difficulty of overcoming this great obstacle has been foreseen from the commencement of this work, and some attempts, that are connected with the arrangements of the subject, have been made to obviate it. The writer is far from flattering himself with entire success, for a history of detached combats is, in truth, a series of episodes, the mind scarcely becoming concentrated on one, when it is required to give its attention to another, while the connecting materials, according to the ordinary practice, are merely a dry detail of documents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The History of the Navy of the United States of America, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267528349
Total Pages : 484 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Navy of the United States of America, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Navy of the United States of America, Vol. 2 of 2 The Philadelphia returned to Gibraltar with her prize, and leaving the latter, she went off Cape' St. Vincent, in quest of a Moorish frigate that was said to be cruising there. Finding the report false, Capt. Bainbridge ran through the straits again, and went aloft, it being under stood that the ships employed above, would be coming down about this time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of the Navy of the United States of America (Classic Reprint)

Author : J. Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364543009
Total Pages : 646 pages
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Download or read book History of the Navy of the United States of America (Classic Reprint) written by J. Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Navy of the United States of America The new matter introduced into this edition, has been obtained from sources that are believed to be authentic. It is considerable in amount, and in several instances of importance; though so much dispersed through the two volumes, as probably to escape the atten tion of cursory examination. As instances of its value, we refer to the capture of the Hancock, 32, during the war of the revolution to the loss of the two sloops on Lake Champlain, in 1812; to that or the two schooners on Lake Ontario, in 1813, and to several other similar events. The corrections in dates and minor incidents, will not be apt to strike the eye at first, but the importance of accuracy in such matters will be readily admitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A History of the United States Navy (Classic Reprint)

Author : John R. Spears
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267799824
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book A History of the United States Navy (Classic Reprint) written by John R. Spears and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the United States Navy IN preparing this volume the writer has been animated by a desire to tell, in one convenient volume, that might be sold at a moderate price, the whole story of our navy - to describe all the important naval battles, and to show how the nation has been affected at certain times by the work of its naval ships, and at other times by the want of such a force. All battles that have had any inﬂuence upon the wars in which the nation has been engaged, or upon the evolution of ships of war, or upon the character of our naval men, or of the nation, have been deemed important herein. Any con sideration of the facts shows that our sailors were animated, in most of their battles, by the knowledge that they were fighting for the very life of the nation, and it is therefore not too much to say that a description of such a fight must be a hero story, however told. Frankly, it was in the be lief that every history of our navy claims attention first of all as a hero story that this one was written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The American Navy (Classic Reprint)

Author : French Ensor Chadwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331669555
Total Pages : 306 pages
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History of the United States Navy, and Biographical Sketches of American Naval Heroes

Author : Charles Jacobs Peterson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333369668
Total Pages : 644 pages
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A Naval History of the American Revolution, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Gardner W. Allen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527954656
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book A Naval History of the American Revolution, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Gardner W. Allen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Naval History of the American Revolution, Vol. 2 A few new Continental vessels went into commis sion or into active service, the most important of which were the frigates Alliance and Confederacy, of thirty-two guns each the first was built in Mas sachusetts, the other in Connecticut. The Confeder acy was a hundred and thirty-three feet long, with an extreme breadth of thirty-five feet, six inches, and was designed to carry twenty-eight guns on the main deck, six on the quarter deck, and two on the forecastle. These ships, which had been authorized by Congress two years or more before, encountered the usual difficulties and delays in getting ready for sea. The Marine Committee in their efforts to expedite matters issued many orders which, owing to slow communication and uncertainty as to the condition of vessels and the state of affairs in dis tant ports, were frequently modified or changed. February 10, it was arranged that the Confederacy, Captain Harding, then at New London, should make a short cruise in Long Island Sound with two vessels of the Connecticut navy. Later she was to join the Queen of France in a cruise along the At lantic coast, in which the Ranger was to take part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Short History of the American Navy

Author : John R. Spears
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Total Pages : 134 pages
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A Short History of the American Navy

Author : John Randolph 1850-1936 Spears
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355484653
Total Pages : 164 pages
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The New American Navy, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : John D. Long
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ISBN 13 : 9781331372547
Total Pages : 330 pages
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The History of the Navy of the United States of America

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484516891
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Navy of the United States of America written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Navy of the United States of America: Abridged in One Volume Captain Mugford - Sachem lo - Andrea Doria l4 - Captain Ro binson takes the Racehorse, Lieutenant Jones - galleys in the Delaware - action in the Hudson - Ranger's action in the west-indies - battle on Lake Champlain - General Arnold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Short History of the United States Navy

Author : Captain George R. Clark
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330151808
Total Pages : 543 pages
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Download or read book A Short History of the United States Navy written by Captain George R. Clark and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of the United States Navy This history owed its origin to the need of a work suitable in scope and treatment as a text-book for the midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy. Since, in a tentative form, it has been used by them with gratifying results, there is hope that it may prove of interest and value to others whose time for this subject is limited. It has been written with certain definite aims, the principal of which are the following: First, to present a record of exactly what happened, without personal, sectional, or national prejudice. Second, to regard naval events from the professional rather than the picturesque point of view; for example, to emphasize the maneuvering and gunnery in an action rather than the smoke and blood. Third, to suppress the trivial and bring out the important, not neglecting the services of officers in time of peace. Fourth, to give, whenever possible, the original sources, such as letters from secretaries of the navy, and official reports of officers. These official reports, we feel, are of singular value. The fighter writes as he shoots - straight to the mark. He may be prejudiced in favor of his own flag, but his account is usually more sportsmanlike than are the corresponding accounts of his countrymen who were not there to see, and has a unique interest that no rewriting ever attains. In the following pages will be found reports by both friends and foes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A History of American Privateers

Author : Edgar Stanton Maclay
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Total Pages : 606 pages
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The Story of Our Navy (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Oliver Stevens
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330721711
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Paul Jones, Vol. 1 of 2

Author : Augustus C. Buell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656782468
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Paul Jones, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Augustus C. Buell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Paul Jones, Vol. 1 of 2: Founder of the American Navy, a History To the average student of American history, men tion of our Revolutionary Navy instantly suggests the name of Paul Jones, and no other. Yet, not withstanding such singular distinction as a gener ality, but little is correctly known in detail as to the actual life and the real character of the man. The daily lives, the individual incidents, and the per sonal characters of our other very great men in that epoch are as Open books. These men spent their lives in our country, and after they had passed away the materials for their histories were left in friendly hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.