Author: Julian R. McQuiston
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Fresh from success in sinking the Albermarle in the Civil War, the young Captain Cushing was assigned to command the gunboat USS Maumee in Hong Kong to aid the restoration of America's naval power in Asia. By linking such aims to British policy, and by courting Chinese and Japanese officials, he succeeded in re-establishing American naval and commercial power in the Far East. In his letters to his fiancee, he brilliantly recorded his travels and observations of people and places (and the difficulties of reconciling his naval career with his devotion to her, whom he married in 1870).
Author: Jamie Malanowski
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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“Superbly entertaining.”—S. C. Gwynne, best-selling author of Empire of the Summer Moon October 1864. The confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle had sunk two federal warships and damaged seven others, taking control of the Roanoke River and threatening the Union blockade. Twenty-one-year-old navy lieutenant William Barker Cushing hatched a daring plan: to attack the fearsome warship with a few dozen men in two small wooden boats. What followed, the close-range torpedoing of the Albemarle and Cushing’s harrowing two-day escape downriver from vengeful Rebel posses, is one of the most dramatic individual exploits in American military history. Theodore Roosevelt said that Cushing “comes next to Farragut on the hero roll of American naval history,” but most have never heard of him today. Tossed out of the Naval Academy for “buffoonery,” Cushing proved himself a prodigy in behind-the-lines warfare. Given command of a small union ship, he performed daring, near-suicidal raids, “cutting out” confederate ships and thwarting blockade runners. With higher commands and larger ships, Cushing’s exploits grow bolder, culminating in the sinking of the Albemarle. A thrilling narrative biography, steeped in the tactics, weaponry, and battle techniques of the Union Navy, Commander Will Cushing brings to life a compelling yet flawed figure. Along with his three brothers, including one who fell at Gettysburg, Cushing served with bravery and heroism. But he was irascible and complicated—a loveable rogue, prideful and impulsive, who nonetheless possessed a genius for combat. In telling Cushing’s story, Malanowski paints a vivid, memorable portrait of the army officials, engineers, and politicians scrambling to win the war. But he also goes deeper into the psychology of the daredevil soldier—and what this heroic and tragic figure, who died before his time, can tell us about the ways we remember the glories of war.
Author: Martha L. Crawley
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: United States Naval Institute
Publisher:
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 2282
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Author: Joe C. Dixon
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Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
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Author: Francis Trevelyan Miller
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Author: Louis Martin Sears
Publisher: New York : Crowell
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Author: John Mullin Batten
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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