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totalt 12 träffar
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous …
American Sea Power in the Old World
This classic study examines the deployment of U.S. naval vessels in European and Near Eastern waters from the end of the Civil War until the United States declared war in April …
Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918
In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for …
American Sea Power in the Old World
This classic study examines the deployment of U.S. naval vessels in European and Near Eastern waters from the end of the Civil War until the United States declared war in April …
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Offers a chronological account of the Civil War, reexamines theories for the South's defeat, and analyzes Confederate and Union military strategy
Victory Without Peace
Victory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and NearEastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants in theVersailles peace negotiations, the …
Iron Afloat
Captains Contentious
This book offers original insights into a quirky quintet of naval heroes of the American Revolution. In ""Captains Contentious"" accomplished maritime historian Louis Arthur Norton …
Crisis at Sea
Crisis at Sea is the first comprehensive history of the United States Navy in European waters during World War I. Drawing on vast American, British, German, French, and Italian …
Confederate Shipbuilding
This work covers the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy. The South's major problems with shipbuilding concerned facilities, materials, and …
Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918
Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the ""Amethyst"", 1806-1811
This is a firsthand account of a nineteenth-century sealing expedition that recalls the spirit of Herman Melville. Lewis Coolidge (1783-1871) was a nephew of Billy Dawes, the man …