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Author : Matthew David Cheetham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Navy Board's Operations 1775-1793 written by Matthew David Cheetham and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Crawford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Reestablishment of the Navy, 1787-1801 written by Michael J. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Army Center of Military History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944961404
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (614 download)
Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Author : Roger Knight
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843835649
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815 written by Roger Knight and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the work of the contractors who were commissioned by the Victualling Board to provision the fleet in this period. Provisioning the fleet, and the army overseas, during the French Wars of 1793-1815 was a major undertaking. This book explains how the Victualling Board in London handled this enormous task, focusing in particular on contractors -that is the merchants and brokers, who provided a vast range of commodities including flour and biscuit, salt beef and pork, as well as huge quantities of fresh water and coal, and every other item needed. It shows how these merchants could be large or small concerns, and provides detailed case studies of different kinds of contractors, including examples of contractors based both in Britain and in the navy's overseas bases. The book demonstrates how, overall, the contracting system represented the mobilisation of a substantial part of the British economy for war; how the performance of contracting was effective, with little or no corruption; and how the contractors took considerable financial risks and made only reasonable margins. It assesses the performance of the Victualling Board, arguing that this was good, and that the problem in the major area of weakness - accounting - was quickly addressed following a major crisis in 1808-09. It concludes that this was "an impressive performance" by the state, but that the overwhelming advantage was the resilience of the market, and that it was "upon the success of the contractors that the war at sea was won." For most of his career, ROGER KNIGHT was on the staff of the National Maritime Museum, leaving as Deputy Director in 2000. Since then he has taught at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich, where he is currently Visiting Professor of Naval History. MARTIN WILCOX completed a doctorate in maritime history at the University of Hull, and has been employed as postdoctoral research fellow at Greenwich Maritime Institute since 2006.
Author : Charles A. Fleming
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Quantico written by Charles A. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Morriss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000203735
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815 written by Roger Morriss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty office occupied by Samuel Bentham between 1796 and 1807, which initiated a range of changes in dockyard technology by the construction of experimental vessels, the introduction of non-recoil armament, the reconstruction of Portsmouth yard, and the introduction of steam-powered engines to pump water, drive mass-production machinery and reprocess copper sheathing. While primarily about the technology, this book also examines the complementary changes in the industrial culture of the dockyards. For it was that change in culture which permitted the dockyards at the end of the Wars to maintain a fleet of unprecedented size and engage in warfare both with the United States of America and with Napoleonic Europe.
Author : James Davey
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 184383748X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of British Naval Strategy written by James Davey and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the system of supply was perfected during the later part of the Napoleonic Wars, enabling fleets to stay at sea on a permanent basis. After the Battle of Trafalgar, the navy continued to be the major arm of British strategy. Decades of practice and refinement had rendered it adept at executing operations - fighting battles, blockading and convoying - across theglobe. And yet, as late as 1807, fleets were forced from their stations due to an ineffective provisioning system. The Transformation of British Naval Strategy shows how sweeping administrative reforms enacted between 1808and 1812 established a highly-effective logistical system, changing an ineffective supply system into one which successfully enabled a fleet to remain on station for as long as was required. James Davey examines the logistical support provided for fleets sent to Northern Europe during the Napoleonic War and shows how this new supply system successfully transformed naval operations, enabling the navy to pursue crucial objectives of national importance, protect essential exports and imports and attack the economies of the Napoleonic Empire. The Transformation of British Naval Strategy is a detailed study of national policy, administrative and political reform and strategic viability. It delves into the nature of the British state, its relationship with the private sector and its ability to reform itself in a time of war. Bureaucratic restructuring represented the last stage in a century-long process of logistical improvement. As a result of the reforms, the navy was able to conduct operations beyond the realms of possibility even twenty years earlier and saw the reach of its power transformed. Military and Napoleonic historians will find this book invaluable. JAMES DAVEY is Research Curator at the National Maritime Museum and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, where he teaches British naval history.
Author : Thomas Malcomson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271191
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815 written by Thomas Malcomson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?
Author : Roger Morriss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000341674
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest 1793–1801 written by Roger Morriss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the French Revolutionary War the Channel Fleet played the crucial role of defending Britain from invasion, protecting Britain’s incoming and outgoing trade through the Channel and Western Approaches, and preventing the French Brest fleet from setting forth on raids and expeditions. Presenting documents revealing the evolution of this role during the war, this book focuses on the blockade of Brest. It shows how the blockade developed and tightened through the increase of Admiralty control of the disposition of the Channel Fleet. It reveals the political conflicts that existed between the Commanders-in-Chief and the Admiralty, the logistical demands that had to be met, and the response of the Admiralty and fleet officers to the Spithead Mutiny. Above all, it reveals the response of the Fleet to the challenges it met from the French in their sequence of break-outs, and from the perennial problem posed by the necessity to preserve the health of seamen. Here, confuting the claims of contemporary medical officers, is evidence that shows how scurvy remained a scourge to the very end of the war.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historical Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 17-18 cover 1775-1914.
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Service
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Preliminary Inventory of the General Records of the Treasury Department, Record Group 56 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rif Winfield
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783469269
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793–1817 written by Rif Winfield and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of this authoritative naval history provides a comprehensive, illustrated guide to the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic Era. A major contribution to naval history, this third volume in Rif Winfield’s British Warships in the Age of Sail covers every vessel that served in the Royal Navy between the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Battle of Waterloo. Revised to incorporate new research, it details more than 2000 ships—whether purpose-built, captured, purchased or merely hired. Providing comprehensive technical data on the ships, this volume also includes commissioning dates, refit periods, changes of captain, their stations of service, as well as notes on any actions in which they took part. The book is well illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings that show the wide variety of service required of naval vessels in late 18th and early 19th centuries. Specially commissioned general arrangement drawings also depict the most significant classes. In all, it is a fitting tribute to a navy that at the zenith of its power in 1809 comprised one half of all the warships in the world
Author : Thomas Hone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book History of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1915-2015 written by Thomas Hone and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donna Bingham Munger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461665965
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Land Records written by Donna Bingham Munger and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genealogist trying to locate families, the surveyor or attorney researching old deeds, or the historian seeking data on land settlement will find Pennsylvania Land Records an indispensable aid. The land records of Pennsylvania are among the most complete in the nation, beginning in the 1680s. Pennsylvania Land Records not only catalogs, cross-references, and tells how to use the countless documents in the archive, but also takes readers through a concise history of settlement in the state. The guide explains how to use the many types of records, such as rent-rolls, ledgers of the receiver general's office, mortgage certificates, proof of settlement statements, and reports of the sale of town lots. In addition, the volume includes: cross-references to microfilm copies; maps of settlement; illustrations of typical documents; a glossary of technical terms; and numerous bibliographies on related topics.
Author : National Maritime Museum (Great Britain). Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by National Maritime Museum (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William R. O'Byrne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Naval Biographical Dictionary written by William R. O'Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Morriss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351915584
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850 written by Roger Morriss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has emphasised developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 takes these considerations one step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture within government bureaucracy to contemporary perceptions of efficiency in the period 1760-1850. By administrative culture is meant the ideas, attitudes, structures, practices and mores of public employees. Inevitably these changed over time and this shift is examined as the naval departments passed through times of crisis and peace. Focusing on the transition in the culture of government employees in the naval establishments in London - in the Navy and Victualling Offices - as well as the victualling yard towns along the Thames and Medway, Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 concerns itself with attitudes at all levels of the organisation. Yet it is concerned above all with those whose views and conduct are seldom reported, the clerks, artificers, secretaries and commissioners; those employees of government who lived in local communities and took their work experience back home with them. As such, this book illuminates not only the employees of government, but also the society which surrounded and impinged upon naval establishments, and the reciprocal nature of their attitudes and influences.
