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Book Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie  a Commander in the Navy of the United States   c

Download or read book Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie a Commander in the Navy of the United States c written by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the naval court martial in the case of A  Slidell Mackenzie     including the charges and specifications of charges  preferred against him by the Secretary of the Navy  To which is annexed  an elaborate review  by J  F  Cooper

Download or read book Proceedings of the naval court martial in the case of A Slidell Mackenzie including the charges and specifications of charges preferred against him by the Secretary of the Navy To which is annexed an elaborate review by J F Cooper written by afterwards SLIDELL MACKENZIE SLIDELL (Alexander) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America s naval heritage  A Catalog of Early Imprints From the Navy Department Library

Download or read book America s naval heritage A Catalog of Early Imprints From the Navy Department Library written by Thomas Truxtun Moebs and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.

Book America s Naval Heritage

Download or read book America s Naval Heritage written by Thomas Truxtun Moebs and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.

Book Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial

Download or read book Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial written by United States Navy Department and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Curse of the Somers

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  • Author : James P. Delgado
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022-01-24
  • ISBN : 0197575226
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book The Curse of the Somers written by James P. Delgado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy's greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact The greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the U.S. brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and his co-conspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea. The repercussions of those acts brought headlines, scandal, a fistfight at a cabinet meeting, a court martial, ruined lives, lost reputations, and tales of a haunted ship bound for the devil and lost tragically at sea with many of its crew. The Somers affair led to the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy and it remains the Navy's only acknowledged mutiny in its history. The story also inspired Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Billy Budd. Others connected to the Somers included Commodore Perry, a relation and defender of the Somers' captain Mackenzie; James Fenimore Cooper, whose feud with the captain, dating back to the War of 1812, resurfaced in his reportage of the affair; and Raphael Semmes, the Somers' last caption who later served in the Confederate Navy. The Curse of the Somers is a thorough recreation of this classic tale, told with the help of recently uncovered evidence. Written by a maritime historian and archaeologist who helped identify the long-lost wreck and subsequently studied its sunken remains, this is a timeless tale of life and death at sea. James P. Delgado re-examines the circumstances, drawing from a rich historical record and from the investigation of the ship's sunken remains. What surfaces is an all-too-human tale that resonates and chills across the centuries.

Book Catalogue of Additions Made to the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of Additions Made to the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Additions  Catalogue of additions  made to the Library of Congress

Download or read book Additions Catalogue of additions made to the Library of Congress written by Washington D.C., libr. of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The View from the Masthead

Download or read book The View from the Masthead written by Hester Blum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere. In the first book to explore their unique contribution to literary culture, Hester Blum examines the first-person narratives of working sailors, from little-known sea tales to more famous works by Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Henry Dana. In their narratives, sailors wrote about how their working lives coexisted with--indeed, mutually drove--their imaginative lives. Even at leisure, they were always on the job site. Blum analyzes seamen's libraries, Barbary captivity narratives, naval memoirs, writings about the Galapagos Islands, Melville's sea vision, and the crisis of death and burial at sea. She argues that the extent of sailors' literacy and the range of their reading were unusual for a laboring class, belying the popular image of Jack Tar as merely a swaggering, profane, or marginal figure. As Blum demonstrates, seamen's narratives propose a method for aligning labor and contemplation that has broader applications for the study of American literature and history.

Book The Quarterly Review  London

Download or read book The Quarterly Review London written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Honor

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  • Author : Thomas Williams
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2012-11
  • ISBN : 1477284893
  • Pages : 721 pages

Download or read book American Honor written by Thomas Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral Charles Stewart's had eleven sea commands during his sixty-three years as an officer in the United States Navy serving fifteen Presidents. Admiral Charles Stewart commanded and sailed most every type of war vessel from sloops to ship-of-the-line war vessels in the nineteenth century. His skills on the seas were demonstrated in his success in many major combat actions with enemy war vessels. Charles Stewart was a statesmen, diplomat, teacher, scholar, and perhaps most important, a man of truth and honor. Charles was the first officer in the United States Navy to bear the title "Admiral." Admiral Charles Stewart fought in the Barbary wars, the War of 1812, the final battle with the Muslim pirates in 1815, as commander-in-chief in the defense of the Pacific (1821) in the breakup of the Spanish held colonies, and the protection of trade in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. He married Delia Tudor in 1813 and they had a son and daughter. The marriage did not last. Stewart's true love was Margaret Smith and they had a son. There was talk about running Charles Stewart for President of the United States beginning in 1840. Admiral Charles Stewart served as a pallbearer on the funeral train of President Lincoln in 1862. United States Navy destroyers and destroyer escorts named after Senior Commodore Charles Stewart. Destroyers were named after distinguished USN/USMC officers and enlisted men such as Charles Stewart. (DD, (Destroyers)-216, DD-291, and DE, (Destroyer Escort)-DE-238 and DE-224 carried Stewart's name.

Book American Military History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brad D. Lookingbill
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2019-01-14
  • ISBN : 1119335981
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book American Military History written by Brad D. Lookingbill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of primary documents that explore the many facets of the American military from the colonial period to the present The second edition of American Military History offers an exceptional collection of primary documents relating to history of the military of the United States from 1607 through the present. The writings offer insight into the armed forces in relation to the social, cultural, economic, political, and territorial development of the United States. Several documents comment on strategic initiatives, combat operations, force structure, public policy, and home fronts. The writings also present firsthand testimony of extraordinary men and women in uniform and most of the documents explore the connections between combatants and the societies that produced them. From the beginnings of the war against the natives through the tragedy of the Civil War and up to the current Global War on Terror, American Military History offers a chronological account of the evolution of the United States military. This vital text: Includes writings that explore the diversity of the armed forces Explores leadership in America’s military affairs Traces America’s ways of war beginning in 1607 through the present Examines the patterns of design and purpose of the American military over time Reveals the vitality of civil-military relations in the United States Written for academics and students of military history, American Military History is an important text that draws on primary sources to explore the many facets of America’s military history.

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .