Das vorliegende Buch ist die Geschichte des Marineoffiziers und -strategen Alfred Thayer Mahan, der nicht nur in der US Navy Karriere machte: Auch in der Schriftstellerei er erfolgreich, begründete mit seinen Werken unter anderem die ...
From Sail to Steam: Recollections of Naval Life
The Mahan Nautical History Series FROM SAIL TO STEAM: Recollections of a Naval Life SEA POWER AND WORLD HISTORY: 1660-1783 SEA POWER AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: 1775-1783 SEA POWER AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: 1793-1812 SEA POWER AND THE WAR ...
From Sail to Steam: Recollections of Naval Life
From Sail to Steam
In this book, Richard V. Francaviglia offers a comprehensive overview of Texas’ merchant and military marine history, drawn from his own extensive collection of maritime history materials, as well as from research in libraries and museums ...
... Chinese steamer , followed by five large Malay Sampans . They were steering toward the coast for an inlet off the island . Gerard's crew lowered their boats , mounted their machine guns in the forwards and with half the crew armed ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Then there was "The Order Book," by Jonathan Oldjunk; an epithet so suggestive of the waste-heap, even to a landsman's ears, that one marvels a man ever took it unto himself, especially in that decline of life when we are more sensitive on ...
In this book, Richard V. Francaviglia offers a comprehensive overview of Texas' merchant and military marine history, drawn from his own extensive collection of maritime history materials, as well as from research in libraries and museums ...
Book Excerpt: ...otives, in great part, led to my being sent to a boarding-school in Maryland, near Hagerstown, which drew its pupils very largely, though not exclusively, from the South.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Book Excerpt:...otives, in great part, led to my being sent to a boarding-school in Maryland, near Hagerstown, which drew its pupils very largely, though not exclusively, from the South.