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Six frigates : the epic history of the founding of the U.S. Navy [Texte imprimé]

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Titre(s)
  • Six frigates : the epic history of the founding of the U.S. Navy [Texte imprimé]
  • Ian W. Toll
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • New York : London : W. W. Norton, 2006
Description matérielle
  • xii-560 p.-p. de pl. en noir et en coul.
  • : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 0-393-05847-6
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 973
Note(s)
  • Bibliogr.
  • Chronologie
  • Index
  • Notes bibliogr.
Résumé ou extrait
  • Before the ink was dry on the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce against the Mediterranean pirates, or drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? The founders-particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams-debated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once. How much of a navy would suffice? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships. From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. According to Henry Adams, the 1812 encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere raised the United States in one half hour to the rank of a first class power in the world.
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