This is an account of naval conflict in the American Civil War. The author describes scenarios such as primitive Northern gunboats drifting through Louisiana's muddy bayous, rebel privateers capturing Yankee merchantmen at sea and Union ironclads subduing Southern forts with relentless gunfire.

Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War

History

FOWLER, William M.

Americas

Avon/Books

Examines the role of the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War and discusses the technological and strategic evolution of the Navy during the period

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

John Hancock belongs to that nearly mythical assemblage, the Founding Fathers, and his bold signature across the Declaration of Independence has placed him among the most famous of that legendary group. Indeed, the very renown of his signature has tended to obscure his position as one of the most extraordinary politicians in American history. Boston was a town filled with men of political ambition, yet Hancock soon became the most prominent of them all. From his mansion atop Beacon Hill, he managed to dominate the politics of Boston and of Massachusetts for nearly thirty years. He was an active, if sometimes covert, participant in the events leading to the Revolution. And as President of the Second Continental Congress he knew, and was known by, all the important people of his day. The Baron of Beacon Hill is more than the biography of a great man. It also tells the story of eighteenth-century Boston and of the birth of the American republic. Vivid and immensely readable, it captures both the unique character of its subject and the excitement of his times. WILLIAM M. FOWLER, JR received his PH.D. fro the University of Notre Dame and is now Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston. In addition to his numbers articles for magazines and newspapers, he has written tow other books- William Ellery: A Rhode Island Politico and Lord of admiralty and Rebels Under Sail, aa dramatic account of the American navy during the Revolution. He and his wife and daughter live in Reading, Massachusetts. -from the flyleaf of The Baron of Beacon Hill, A Biography of John Hancock

The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock

Houghton/Mifflin

Jack tars and commodores: The American Navy, 1783-1815

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Rebels Under Sail: the American Navy During the Revolution.

Encore Editions

Principles of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the Musculoskeletal Diseases

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gershwin MD, M. Eric

Leek, James

Exercise & Fitness

Saunders

Silas Talbot became Captain of Constitution near the end of a dramatic, upwardly mobile trajectory from farm boy to colleague of the mighty, including Washington, Hamilton and Lafayette. A hero of the American Revolution on land and sea, Talbot was a Rhode Island Militia officer, a successful privateer, and a U.S. Navy Captain who saw action during the Quasi War with France. This biography by Professor William M. Fowler, Jr. of Northeastern University, based in large part on the collection of Talbot papers in the G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport Museum, brings us the life of a plain citizen of the new republic -- a citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it.

Silas Talbot: Captain of Old Ironsides

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Mystic Seaport Museum

Aspects of America's Revolutionary War are reexamined by American and British historians including Carol Ruth Berkin, Alistair Cooke, Prince Charles, Piers Mackesy, and Stanley K. Schultz

American Revolution: Changing Perspectives

Coyle, Wallace

Northeastern Univ Pr

Coyle, E. Wallace

Jack Tars and Commodores is a lively and authoritative account of the United States Navy from Independence through the War of 1812.   During this turbulent period the new American republic fought three wars — declared and undeclared — against the Barbary States, France, and Great Britain. The first two were entirely naval affairs; the third, a combination of military action on land and sea. In each the survival of the young nation was due in large part to the efforts of the navy and the exploits of such men as Stephen Decatur, Isaac Hull, Thomas Truxtun, and Oliver Hazard Perry.   William Fowler is a historian with the capacity to convert meticulous research into flowing narrative. Here he fuses political and naval history, looking at political forces in the rapidly expanding U.S. society as well as at naval ordnance, operations, and the fateful and exciting battles at sea. He deals too with the often neglected human aspects of life aboard ship, focusing on those who served in the forecastle as well as the great men of the quarterdeck.   William M. Fowler, Jr., is a professor of history at Northeastern University in Boston and managing editor of the New England Quarterly. Among his previous books are Rebels Under Sail, a dramatic account of the American navy during the Revolution, and The Baron of Beacon Hill, a biography of John Hancock. Professor Fowler and his family live in Reading, Massachusetts.

Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy 1783-1815

Literature & Fiction

Independently published

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