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Sea stories : forays into American naval history during the age of sail / Michael J. Crawford.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Crawford, Michael J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy--History.
- United States.
- United States. Navy.
- Sailboats--United States--History.
- Sailboats.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (85 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- Other Title:
- Forays into American naval history during the age of sail
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Naval History and Heritage Command, Department of the Navy, 2018.
- Contents:
- Part one : Strategy and operations. Chapter 1 : The Queen of France comes to America, 1778
- Chapter 2 : The tale of the milk pail : vice Admiral Comte d'Estaing's strategic vision for the War of 1778 in America
- Part Two : Building a naval tradition. Chapter 3 : The invasion and defense of Canada in 1775 and 1776 : a new perspective from a new eyewitness account
- Chapter 4 : Poughkeepsie, the continental shipyards, and defense of the Hudson
- Part three : The Navy's image on paper and canvas. Chapter 5 : Samuel Eliot Morison's John Paul Jones : a sailor's biography, a retrospective appreciation
- Chapter 6 : The lasting influence of Theodore Roosevelt's Naval War of 1812
- Chapter 7 : National ensigns in the Naval Art of the War of 1812
- Chapter 8 : White-jacket and the Navy in which Melville served.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (NHHC, viewed Dec. 9, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781943604289
- 1943604282
- OCLC:
- 1288021309
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