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The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence

The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence( )
Author: Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Series title:Barnes and Noble Digital Library
ISBN:978-1-4114-4518-5
Publication Date:Apr 2011
Publisher:Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $1.99
Book Description:

While westward land expansion captured the attention of America's leaders, Mahan used history to prove that he who controls the seas controls the globe. In this 1913 classic of military historical analysis, dissecting battles at Boston, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, he argues that the Revolutionary War was really won on the water.

Book Details
Pages:377
Detailed Subjects: History / Military / United States
Author Biography
Mahan, Alfred Thayer (Author)
Alfred Thayer Mahan was born on September 27, 1840 at West Point, New York, where his father was a professor of Civil and Military Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1859 and embarked on a nearly 40-year naval career seeing duty in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico against the Confederacy.

He taught briefly at Annapolis, but spent most of his academic career at the newly founded Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he eventually served as president. He wrote twenty books during his lifetime including The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783; The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812; The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future; The Life of Nelson; and The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence. He died on December 1, 1914.

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