Download or read book Old Navy Letters written by Ralph W. Roach and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Many a young man grew to full manhood while serving in U.S. Navy destroyers. Ralph Roach's letters home tell the story of one such man.' -Terry Miller, Executive Director, Tin Can Sailors Inc., The National Association of Destroyer Veterans Ralph W. Roach, an Indiana farm boy, greeted life with arms wide open and was determined to make the best of it. After graduation in 1953, he set his sights on Purdue University until he faced a financial stress that led him into a job with the local paper instead. Less than a year later, Ralph entered the U.S. Navy. Set sail with Ralph on an adventure through boot camp, communications school, and cruises in the West Pacific. Through these Old Navy Letters, you'll see him grow into a well-traveled old salt who battles loneliness out in the deep blue and longs to return to his sweetheart for a bright future.
Download or read book Treasure and Empire in the Civil War written by Neil P. Chatelain and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Download or read book Mad Jack Percival written by James H. Ellis and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful Captain John "Mad Jack" Percival was a legend in his time. Known as a seaman of uncommon ability and fearlessness, he led such an extraordinary life that he drew the attention of the famous novelists Hawthorne, Melville, and Michener. The fact that his first and last ships are national shrines has only enhanced his reputation. Percival's naval career began in 1797 when he was impressed into British naval service aboard the HMS Victory and ended in 1846 after taking the USS Constitution on her only around-the-world cruise. This book draws from unpublished journals, letters, and logs to provide previously unknown details about his adventures and the formative years of the U.S. Navy. Hailing from Cape Cod and recognized by Congress for meritorious action in the War of 1812, Mad Jack fought against the French and British and had the Constitution off the coast of Mexico when war with that country broke out. In between he chased West Indies pirates and Globe mutineers, tussled with South Pacific chieftains, policed distant American whalers and merchantmen, charted unknown waters, quarreled with missionaries, educated and trained midshipmen, and skirmished with local forces in what is now Vietnam. This work is just as entertaining as the tall tales about this heroic figure spun by generations of seamen, but it is completely true.
Download or read book England s Navy Unarmed A series of letters to the First Lord of the Admiralty and in the Daily News etc written by Edward Pellew Halsted and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy 1877 1889 written by Kenneth J. Hagan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1973 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A most thorough and scholarly study of the relationship between the post-Civil War American Navy and the mercantile expansionists of that period....The author has succeeded notably in relating the growth of American mercantilism in the 1870s and 1880s to the corresponding development of naval strategy and power in that period. The U.S. was started on the road to empire in those times, and the author tells us how. Scholarly history at its best!
Download or read book The Old Navy and the New written by Daniel Ammen and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electronic Classics written by Andrew Emmerson and published by Newnes. This book was released on 1998-09-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Radio, Television and Hi-Fi are highly popular 'modern antiques' - and offer the added challenge for restorers of the repair of classic valve-based circuits. This highly readable book encompasses all aspects of buying, collecting, restoring, repairing, sourcing parts, professional services, clubs and societies, etc. Covering the technical side as well as collecting, this book offers the most comprehensive coverage available. The first half of the book deals primarily with technical aspects of restoration, what components are needed and where they can be found. The second half of the book provides a wealth of useful information: names and addresses of clubs and societies, auctions and antique fairs; a professional services directory; how to get hold of service data. Armed with this book the enthusiast will be able to tackle the restoration of a vintage machine with confidence. A highly popular type of 'modern antique' Covers technical aspects of classic valve-based circuitry The most complete work for vintage audio and TV enthusiasts, dealers and repairers
Download or read book U S Naval Institute Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Naval Institute Proceedings written by United States Naval Institute and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters and Papers of Professor Sir John Knox Laughton 1830 1915 written by Andrew Lambert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Knox Laughton created modern naval history to harmonise the adacemic standards of the new English historical profession with the strategic and doctrinal needs of the contemporary Royal Navy. His correspondents included major figures in both the historical and the naval professions: Alfred T. Mahan, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Julian Corbett, Cyprian Bridge and many others. This volume will be of particular interest to those interested in the development of naval history and naval theory.
Download or read book Shoebox Letters written by Richard T. Ingels and published by Richard Ingels. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photos, letters, autobiographies and correspondence about the Ingels family in Howard County Indiana. A short genealogical sketch is also given for the Ingels in Pennsylvania and Kentucky before 1800. The book is also an example of what can be done with the letters and photos of ordinary people to preserve them for family history.
Download or read book Advocate for America written by Ralph M. Aderman and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In later decades he played a continuing role in the cultural life of the young nation, numbering among his friends and associates a great many other writers, editors, and publishers.".
Download or read book Letters to Martin Van Buren written by Ross Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839' is a record of the a year he spent in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Holland, primarily for his father, Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States. A fly-on-the-wall view of the political and social situation in Europe was invaluable to the President at a highly sensitive moment in Anglo-American relations, and provides a rich and insightful view for historians of the period. Published in its entirety for the first time, Van Buren's objective and good-humoured observations present fresh insights into complex and compelling personalities and relationships on both sides of the Atlantic, providing an invaluable and highly readable resource for scholars and students of the period, as well as for the general reader.
Download or read book Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Buildings and Grounds written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes index and appendices.
Download or read book Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Archivist of the United States on the Franklin D Roosevelt Library Hyde Park N Y written by Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Rudyard Kipling written by Rudyard Kipling and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular author of his day and a paradox who was both an assertive British imperialist and a man of sensitivity and wide reading, Rudyard Kipling is best remembered now as the author of The Jungle Book, the Just-So Stories, and Kim. Fully annotated, volumes 5 and 6 conclude the publication of Kipling's letters, a heroic effort that began with the publication of volume 1 in 1990.
