Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
ISBN-13:
9780393058475
ISBN-10:
0393058476
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Ian W. Toll
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
560 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Naval
,
Military History
,
United States
,
War of 1812
,
Engineering
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780393058475
ISBN-10:
0393058476
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Ian W. Toll
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
560 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Naval
,
Military History
,
United States
,
War of 1812
,
Engineering
,
Americas History
Summary
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy (ISBN-13: 9780393058475 and ISBN-10: 0393058476), written by authors
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Description
How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnipotent British Navy.
Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce against the Mediterranean pirates, or drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? The foundersparticularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adamsdebated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once. How much of a navy would suffice? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships.
From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. According to Henry Adams, the 1812 encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere "raised the United States in one half hour to the rank of a first class power in the world." 16 pages of illustrations; 8 pages of color.
Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce against the Mediterranean pirates, or drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? The foundersparticularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adamsdebated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once. How much of a navy would suffice? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships.
From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. According to Henry Adams, the 1812 encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere "raised the United States in one half hour to the rank of a first class power in the world." 16 pages of illustrations; 8 pages of color.
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