Command Under Sail : Makers of the American Naval Tradition 1775-1850.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bradford, James C.
Imprint:	Annopolis : Naval Institute Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (353 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Navy -- Officers -- Biography. United States. -- Navy. Armed Forces -- Officers. United States -- History, Naval -- To 1900. United States. Biographies. Naval history. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11176513

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ISBN:	9781612512617 1612512615
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	A collection of esssays on 12 officers who helped to build the foundation of the U.S. Naval tradition.
Other form:	Print version: Bradford, James C. Command Under Sail : Makers of the American Naval Tradition 1775-1850. Annopolis : Naval Institute Press, ©2013 9781591140597

Table of Contents:

[CONTENTS]; Illustrations; Preface; The Struggle for Independence; Esek Hopkins: Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy; John Paul Jones: Honor and Professionalism; John Barry: A Most Fervent Patriot; Baptism by Fire; Edward Preble and the ""Boys"": The Officer Corps of 1812 Revisited; William S. Bainbridge: Bad Luck or Fatal Flaw?; Oliver Hazard Perry: Savior of the Northwest; Thomas MacDonough: Arcitect of a Wilderness Navy; Distant Stations; David Porter: Pacific Ocean Gadfly; Stephen Decatur: Heroic Ideal of the Young Navy; John Rodgers: The Stalwart Conservative.
The Twilight of the Sailing NavyIssac Hull: Bulwark of the Sailing Navy; Robert F. Stockton: Naval Officer and Reformer; Bibliography; Notes on Authors; Index.

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