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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan R. Dull served as the senior associate editor of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin series until 2008 and is the author of numerous books, including Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution (Nebraska, 2010), The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War (Nebraska, 2005), and The Age of the Ship of the Line (Nebraska, 2009). Klappentext Jonathan R. Dull is the author of The French Navy and the Seven Years¿ War; The Age of the Ship of the Line; and Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution! all available from the University of Nebraska Press. Zusammenfassung For its first eighty-five years! the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War of Independence and was mostly trapped in port by the end of the War of 1812. How this meagre presence became the major naval power it remains to this day is the subject of American Naval History! 1607-1865. Inhaltsverzeichnis Map of the Mississippi Valley Preface 1. The American Colonies and the British Navy, 16071775 2. The War against Britain, 17751783 3. A New Navy Fights France and the Barbary States, 17831805 4. A Precarious Neutrality Ends in a Second War against Britain, 18051815 5. Trade Protection and War with Mexico, 18151861 6. The Civil War, 18611865 7. Epilogue Notes and Suggested Further Reading Index
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Jonathan R. Dull served as the senior associate editor of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin series until 2008 and is the author of numerous books, including Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution (Nebraska, 2010), The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War (Nebraska, 2005), and The Age of the Ship of the Line (Nebraska, 2009).
