Merchantman: Or Ship of War : A Synopsis of Laws, U.S. State Department Positions, and Practices Which Alter the Peaceful Character of U.S. Merchant

Gibson, Charles

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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. In 1775, well in advance of the creation of the Continental Navy, General George Washington sent an assortment of armed ships to sea against the British...Thus, it came about that on August 24, 1775,...The Army's Navy was born.

Marine Transportation in War: The U.S. Army Experience, 1775-1860 (The Army's Navy, Vol 1)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gibson, Charles Dana

Gibson, E. Kay

Politics & Government

Explores how the Union Army Quartermaster Department employed steam-powered merchant vessels as primary transportation and in a cooperative mode with the nation's rail systems during the Civil War, detailing operations, vessels, and personnel of campaigns such as the Hatteras expedition, attempts against Vicksburg and New Orleans, and the Red River campaign, as well as many others. Includes b&amp;w photos and drawings, and appendices on subjects such as crew status, espionage, the Sioux uprisings, and military telegraph service. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations 1861-1866 (Army's Navy Series, Vol 2)

History

Americas

This volume is the reference companion to the Gibsons' award-winning study Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations, 1861 - 1866. The Dictionary is an annotated, cross-indexed work with operational notes on vessels owned, chartered, or otherwise hired by the US government during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The entries describe 1,966 steamers of river and ocean classes as well as 2,003 sailing vessels.

Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels, Steam and Sail, Employed by the Union Army, 1861 - 1868

History of the United States Army's Maritime deployments encompassing the Spanish-American War, the subjugation and follow-up pacification of the Philippines (1899-1913); American military operations in China (1900-1901); the expeditions involving Mexico (1914-1916); World War I and its troubled after math; and America's too little, too late defense of the Philippines (1937-1942). Told within the broad context of the military social, economic and political events within which the sealife took place.

Over Seas: U.S. Army Maritime Operations, 1898 Through the Fall of the Philippines

Military

The Broadbill Swordfishery of the Northwest Atlantic, An Economic and Natural History

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

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