Author: H. A. Goldsborough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Commodore Charles Wilkes's Court Martial
Author: H. A. Goldsborough
Publisher:
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Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Commodore Charles Wilkes's Court Martial
Author: Charles Wilkes
Publisher:
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Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy, 1798-1877
Author: Charles Wilkes
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Sea of Glory
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142004838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142004838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
House Documents
Author: USA House of Representatives
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Treasure and Empire in the Civil War
Author: Neil P. Chatelain
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Bibliography of Naval Literature in the United States Naval Academy Library
Author: United States Naval Academy. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval biography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval biography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy
Author: Agnes C. Doyle
Publisher: Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Selected List of Works in the Library Relating to Naval History, Naval Administration, Etc
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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