Author: United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Dec. 1800 to Dec. 1801
Author: United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Dec. 1800 to Dec. 1801
Author: United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France
Author: United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers ...
Author: United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
United States Naval History
Author: Barbara A. Lynch
Publisher: Naval Historical Center
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher: Naval Historical Center
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1876
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1876
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
A Call to the Sea
Author: Claude G. Berube
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1574885189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The U.S. Navy s real-life Jack Aubrey
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1574885189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The U.S. Navy s real-life Jack Aubrey
Knickerbocker Commodore
Author: Bruce A. Castleman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438461534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Knickerbocker Commodore chronicles the life of Rear Admiral John Drake Sloat, an important but understudied naval figure in US history. Born and raised by a slave-owning gentry family in New York's Hudson Valley, Sloat moved to New York City at age nineteen. Bruce A. Castleman explores Sloat's forty-five-year career in the Navy, from his initial appointment as midshipman in the conflicts with revolutionary France to his service as commodore during the country's war with Mexico. As the commodore in command of the naval forces in the Pacific, Sloat occupied Monterey and declared the annexation of California in July 1846, controversial actions criticized by some and defended by others. More than a biography of one man, this book illustrates the evolution of the peacetime Navy as an institution and its conversion from sail to steam. Using shipping news and Customs Service records from Sloat's merchant voyages, Castleman offers a rare and insightful perspective on American maritime history.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438461534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Knickerbocker Commodore chronicles the life of Rear Admiral John Drake Sloat, an important but understudied naval figure in US history. Born and raised by a slave-owning gentry family in New York's Hudson Valley, Sloat moved to New York City at age nineteen. Bruce A. Castleman explores Sloat's forty-five-year career in the Navy, from his initial appointment as midshipman in the conflicts with revolutionary France to his service as commodore during the country's war with Mexico. As the commodore in command of the naval forces in the Pacific, Sloat occupied Monterey and declared the annexation of California in July 1846, controversial actions criticized by some and defended by others. More than a biography of one man, this book illustrates the evolution of the peacetime Navy as an institution and its conversion from sail to steam. Using shipping news and Customs Service records from Sloat's merchant voyages, Castleman offers a rare and insightful perspective on American maritime history.
American Amphibious Warfare
Author: Gary J Ohls
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682470903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
American Amphibious Warfare offers analysis of the early amphibious landing operations from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Through a case study approach, the operational and strategic significance of each action is analyzed and its impact on the development of the United States is assessed. By focusing on seven major campaigns, Gary J. Ohls provides readers with a richer appreciation of the origins of American amphibious warfare. For many Americans, the concept of amphibious warfare derives from the World War II model in which landing forces assaulted foreign shores and faced determined resistance. These actions usually resulted in very high casualty rates, yet they proved uniformly successful. The circumstances of geography coupled with the weapons and equipment available at that time dictated this type of warfare. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no such equipment or weapons existed for assaulting defended beaches. Commanders attempted to land their forces in areas where the resistance would be light or nonexistent. The initiative and maneuverability inherent in naval forces permitted the delivery of combat power to the point of attack faster that the land-based defenders could react. Ohls explains how amphibious traditions began in this era and shows how they compare with modern amphibious forces, particularly the tactics of today’s U.S. Marine Corps. The author makes a compelling case for a continuing tradition of American amphibious warfare learned and honed through a set of key battles and carried forward. Further, Ohls argues that the Marine Corps is the true inheritor of this warfare tradition formed in early America, concluding that weapons and equipment, coupled with new doctrine, actually allow modern forces to return to the sort of amphibious tactics and operations practiced more than two centuries ago. Both a work of history as well as an analysis of operational conflict, this study should please readers looking for a clearer understanding of U.S. amphibious operations. Since the concepts presented in this book continue to serve as excellent tools for both the professional officer and the analytical historian, American Amphibious Warfare as a whole provides a much-needed comprehensive history of naval and military warfare.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682470903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
American Amphibious Warfare offers analysis of the early amphibious landing operations from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Through a case study approach, the operational and strategic significance of each action is analyzed and its impact on the development of the United States is assessed. By focusing on seven major campaigns, Gary J. Ohls provides readers with a richer appreciation of the origins of American amphibious warfare. For many Americans, the concept of amphibious warfare derives from the World War II model in which landing forces assaulted foreign shores and faced determined resistance. These actions usually resulted in very high casualty rates, yet they proved uniformly successful. The circumstances of geography coupled with the weapons and equipment available at that time dictated this type of warfare. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no such equipment or weapons existed for assaulting defended beaches. Commanders attempted to land their forces in areas where the resistance would be light or nonexistent. The initiative and maneuverability inherent in naval forces permitted the delivery of combat power to the point of attack faster that the land-based defenders could react. Ohls explains how amphibious traditions began in this era and shows how they compare with modern amphibious forces, particularly the tactics of today’s U.S. Marine Corps. The author makes a compelling case for a continuing tradition of American amphibious warfare learned and honed through a set of key battles and carried forward. Further, Ohls argues that the Marine Corps is the true inheritor of this warfare tradition formed in early America, concluding that weapons and equipment, coupled with new doctrine, actually allow modern forces to return to the sort of amphibious tactics and operations practiced more than two centuries ago. Both a work of history as well as an analysis of operational conflict, this study should please readers looking for a clearer understanding of U.S. amphibious operations. Since the concepts presented in this book continue to serve as excellent tools for both the professional officer and the analytical historian, American Amphibious Warfare as a whole provides a much-needed comprehensive history of naval and military warfare.