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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Naval Biography, Individual (L-Z)
Author: Naval Biography; Or, The History and Lives of Distinguished Characters in the British Navy
Author: Edward HardingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
United States Naval History, Naval Biography, Naval Strategy and Tactics
Author: United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Who's who in Naval History
Author: Alastair WilsonPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415308281
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This A-Z guide covers the life and careers of over 600 key figures in naval history, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Featuring influential figures from the UK, US and around the world, from the great admirals such as Nelson, to minesweepers, designers and administrators, it is an invaluable guide to those who have shaped naval history.
A Selected and Annotated Bibliography on United States Naval History
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy
Author: Ari HoogenboomPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421402033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
This “fine, perhaps definitive, biography” of the man who guided the U.S. Navy’s stellar Civil War campaigns “should be on every naval bookshelf” (Washington Times). Gustavus Vasa Fox began his naval service in 1838, when he went to sea as a midshipman. He sailed in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Africa, in the Gulf of Mexico, and with the East India Squadron in the Pacific. His experiences working on the Coast Survey, navigating the lower Mississippi River, and captaining a steamer that ran from New York to Havana to New Orleans and back, would all prove invaluable in the Civil War. During the war, Fox was instrumental in mounting the blockade of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Rio Grande. In planning and coordinating expeditions, Fox deserves much of the credit for the navy’s successes at Hatteras, Port Royal, New Orleans, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher. Passionately committed to preserving the Union, Fox also became an advocate of freedom and voting rights for African Americans. He was a skilled administrator who understood politics and developed a close working relationship with Abraham Lincoln. Along with officers like Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs and coordinator of military railroads Herman Haupt, Fox played a critical but overlooked role in the Union victory.
United States Naval History, Naval Biography, Naval Strategy and Tactics
Author: United States. Department of the Navy. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Andrew Foote
Author: Spencer C. TuckerPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781682473405
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This biography traces the life and career of one of the U.S. Navy's first admirals, Andrew Hull Foote. As flag officer of the Union's western naval forces, Foote was a key figure in the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee and helped open the Confederate heartland to the Union. Later he shared in the victory at Island No. 10, an action that opened the upper Mississippi River to the Union. In this revealing portrait, Spencer Tucker describes Foote as emblematic of a period of great change in the American navy. Although very much an officer schooled in the tradition of the Old Navy, Foote considered himself first and foremost a staunch Christian and agent of Divine Will. An ardent social reformer, he crusaded zealously for abolition of the daily grog ration in the navy, and during his command of the brig Perry in the African squadron, he also became a leading advocate of the government's use of forceful measures to end the slave trade. In the 1850s Foote's career exemplified America's emerging international policy in the Far East when, in support of U.S. interests in China, he led a shore party to destroy coastal forts that had fired on U.S. ships. The first study of the admiral to be published in more than one hundred years, this work makes an important contribution to the literature of the period and to the series.
Studies in Naval History
Author: John Knox LaughtonPublisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Company
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Author: John (comp) Frost