Life of Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral, 1807-1877
Author : Charles Henry Davis
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1899
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Charles Henry Davis
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1899
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Charles Henry Davis
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category :
ISBN : 9783337750770
Author : Anthony Bruce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1135935343
From the beginnings of the age of sail and firearms to the present day, the Encyclopedia of Naval History provides a complete and comprehensive guide to world naval history.
Author : Kevin John Weddle
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813923321
"Weddle reveals that the admiral was the victim of a double irony: although Du Pont championed technological innovation, he outspokenly opposed the use of the new ironclads to attack Charleston. Only when his objections were overridden did his use of these modern vessels bring his career to an end. Weddle exposes this historical misunderstanding, while also pinpointing Du Pont's crucial role in the development of United States naval strategy, his work in modernizing the navy between the Mexican War and the Civil War, and his push for the navy's technological transition from wood to iron.".
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0807837326
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Author : John Codman Ropes
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1913
Category : United States
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Author : John Codman Ropes
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1913
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0810878119
The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastation in its wake, and instilling an anger that has not entirely dissipated even to this day, 150 years later. This updated and expanded two-volume second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Civil War relates the history of this war through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on persons, places, events, institutions, battles, and campaigns. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Civil War.
Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 1974
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : William H. Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803238619
In a detailed examination of the Civil War at sea, the author of Civil War Ironclads describes the conflict in the context of three campaigns, as well as how both sides mobilized and employed their resources for the war.