The World Cruise Of The Great White Fleet

Author : Michael J. Crawford
Publisher : Department of the Navy
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015075641756

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The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet by Michael J. Crawford Pdf

Under orders from President Theodore Roosevelt, sixteen battleships of the United States’ Atlantic Battle Fleet and their consorts made a peace-time circumnavigation of the globe, from December 1907 to February 1909. Text, illustrations, and captions tell the story of this fourteen-month world cruise. Separate chapters provide an overview of the origins, course, and accomplishments of the cruise, describe the ships that circumnavigated the globe, depict the character and experiences of the sailors who participated, narrate the cruise’s principal events and itinerary, and analyze the Great White Fleet’s significance organizationally for the United States Navy and diplomatically for the United States of America.

Author : Michael J. Crawford
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN : 0945274661

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The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet: Honoring 100 Years of Global Partnerships and Security by Michael J. Crawford Pdf

Under orders from President Theodore Roosevelt, sixteen battleships of the United States Atlantic Battle Fleet and their consorts made a peace-time circumnavigation of the globe, from December 1907 to February 1909. Text, illustrations, and captions tell the story of this fourteen-month world cruise.

Author : James R. Reckner
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Japan
ISBN : 1557509727

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Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet by James R. Reckner Pdf

Drawing on previously untapped sources, naval historian James Reckner provides a complete picture of the fleet that thrust the United States into the ranks of great world naval powers. His fresh interpretations of the fleet's historic 1907-09 world cruise, which won him the 1989 Roosevelt Naval History Prize, allow today's readers to fully appreciate the significance of the famous fleet that set sail during Teddy Roosevelt's second term as president. Reckner recreates the colorful pageantry of the event--sixteen U.S. battleships on a fourteen-month voyage around the world--that drew thousands of sightseers at every port of call, but his main emphasis is on the cruise's long-range impact on the Navy. He shows how the cruise revealed the fleet's shortcomings and forced the naval establishment to acknowledge the faults and make concessions that eventually led to permanent benefits.

Author : Samuel Carter (III)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033885604

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The Incredible Great White Fleet by Samuel Carter (III) Pdf

The story of the two year round the world voyage of 16 ships from Theodore Roosevelt's refurbished Navy--a cruise that marked Americas' coming of age as a world power.

Author : James R. Reckner
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015014210390

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Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet by James R. Reckner Pdf

The story of the famous fleet that thrust the United States into the ranks of great world naval powers. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : John Henry
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-04
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781459710481

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Great White Fleet by John Henry Pdf

A richly illustrated story from the glory days of passenger travel on the Great Lakes. For decades Canada Steamship Lines proclaimed itself as the world’s largest transportation company operating on inland waters. Its passenger and freight vessels could be found on the Great Lakes as far west as Duluth, Minnesota, and as far east as the Lower St. Lawrence River. The passenger steamers were known collectively as the Great White Fleet. These ships – from day-excursion vessels to well-appointed cruise ships – had rich histories. The sheer scope of these passenger services were a wonder to behold. No fewer than 51 steamers comprised the passenger fleet at the company’s inception in 1913, and its network of routes was awesome. This is the story of the beloved steamers of the Great White Fleet from 1913–65, when the passenger vessels stopped running. Nearly half a century after the last passenger boats sailed, this book will provide a window into a wonderful lost way of life.

Author : Robert A. Hart
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035146716

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The Great White Fleet by Robert A. Hart Pdf

Author : Brian Lane Herder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472839992

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US Navy Battleships 1895–1908 by Brian Lane Herder Pdf

The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's dominant political and military power of the 20th century. These battleships were the stars of the 1907–09 Great White Fleet circumnavigation, in which the emerging power and reach of the US Navy was displayed around the world. They also took part in the bombardment and landings at Veracruz, some served as convoy escorts in World War I, and the last two were transferred to the Hellenic Navy and were sunk during World War II. This book examines the design, history, and technical qualities of the final six classes of US predreadnought battleships, all of which were involved in the circumnavigation of the Great White Fleet. These classes progressively closed the quality gap with European navies – the Connecticuts were the finest predreadnought battleships ever built – and this book also compares and contrasts US predreadnought battleships to their foreign contemporaries. Packed with illustrations and specially commissioned artwork, this is an essential guide to the development of US Navy Battleships at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Mark Albertson
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781604621457

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They'll Have to Follow You! by Mark Albertson Pdf

'Others may do as you have done, but they'll have to follow you!' so proclaimed Teddy Roosevelt to the sailors and marines assembled on the afterdeck of USS Connecticut, flagship of the Great White Fleet. The United States Navy had come of age, as sixteen coal-burning battleships carried the Stars and Stripes to the far-flung ends of the globe in the most extraordinary peacetime demonstration of naval power in modern times. It is a story set in the closing stages of the Golden Age of Imperialism, a time when the Great Powers engaged in a battleship-building binge that not only set the world tottering on the brink of global catastrophe, but foreshadowed the later contest in nuclear arms between the United States and the Soviet Union. In this companion volume to USS Connecticut: Constitution State Battleship, Mark Albertson captures one of the finest moments of the United States Navy. In the first major strategic initiative by the United States in the twentieth century, the Atlantic Fleet Battleship Force circumnavigated the globe, steaming more than 46,000 miles in the most monumental achievement in modern maritime history, a triumph that helped make the United States a global power, and eventually, a super power. Step aboard one of the ships comprising the Great White Fleet and travel round the world in They'll Have to Follow You!

Author : Jeffrey A. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216137443

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Reforming America [2 volumes] by Jeffrey A. Johnson Pdf

Presenting a detailed look at the individuals, themes, and moments that shaped this important Progressive Era in American history, this valuable reference spans 25 years of reform and provides multidisciplinary insights into the period. During the Progressive Era, influential thinkers and activists made efforts to improve U.S. society through reforms, both legislative and social, on issues of the day such as working conditions of laborers, business monopolies, political corruption, and vast concentrations of wealth in the hands of a few. Many Progressives hoped for and tirelessly worked toward a day when all Americans could take full advantage of the economic and social opportunities promised by U.S. society. This two-volume work traces the issues, events, and individuals of the Progressive Era from approximately 1893 to 1920. The entries and primary sources in this set are grouped thematically and cover a broad range of topics regarding reform and innovation across the period, with special attention paid to important topics of race, class, and gender reform and reformers. The volumes are helpfully organized under five categories: work and economic life; social and political life; cultural and religious life; science, literature, and the arts; and sports and popular culture.

Author : Pat Neal
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781532033179

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Wildlife by Pat Neal Pdf

Fishermen like holidays because they keep other folks off the water. The way they celebrate traditional holidays like Thanksgiving, obscure holidays like Arbor Day, and as yet-to-be-declared holidays like National Cabin Fever Day depends on whether one fishes or not. In WildLife: Volume Three: Fishermans Holidays, author Pat Neal examines our unrealistic expectations toward holidays through a collection of previously published newspaper columns. Written from his research as an historian and the wild and wooly life of a guide on the rivers of the Olympic Peninsula, these stories attempt to answer the eternal question: why cant the Skunk Cabbage Festival last all year? Gleaned from the commentary page of The Peninsula Daily News, Neal offers a years worth of fishermans holiday stories. WildLife provides humorous insight from a fishermans point of view into a host of holidays from Thanksgiving to the solstice to election day and more.

Author : Frederick W. Marks
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803281153

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Velvet on Iron by Frederick W. Marks Pdf

Analyzes the international relations, foreign policy, and diplomatic efforts of the the administration of Theodore Roosevelt in the context of his time

Author : Chris J. Magoc,David Bernstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216101437

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Imperialism and Expansionism in American History [4 volumes] by Chris J. Magoc,David Bernstein Pdf

This four-volume encyclopedia chronicles the historical roots of the United States' current military dominance, documenting its growth from continental expansionism to hemispheric hegemony to global empire. This groundbreaking four-volume encyclopedia offers sweeping coverage of a subject central to American history and of urgent importance today as the nation wrestles with a global imperial posture and the long-term viability of the largest military establishment in human history. The work features more than 650 entries encompassing the full scope of American expansionism and imperialism from the colonial era through the 21st-century "War on Terror." Readers will learn about U.S.-Native American conflicts; 19th-century land laws; early forays overseas, for example, the opening of Japan; and America's imperial conflicts in Cuba and the Philippines. U.S. interests in Latin America are explored, as are the often-forgotten ambitions that lay behind the nation's involvement in the World Wars. The work also offers extensive coverage of the Cold War and today's ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Middle East as they relate to U.S. national interests. Notable individuals, including American statesmen, military commanders, influential public figures, and anti-imperialists are covered as well. The inclusion of cultural elements of American expansionism and imperialism—for example, Hollywood films and protest music—helps distinguish this set from other more limited works.

Author : Daniel Knowles
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Empire Cruise by Daniel Knowles Pdf

In November 1923 the Royal Navy dispatched what was named the Special Service Squadron on a ten-month tour around the British Empire. Led by the battlecruiser HMS 'Hood', the pride of the Royal Navy and, at the time, the largest ship in the world, and including the battlecruiser 'Renown' and the First Light Cruiser Squadron, the role of the Special Service Squadron was to 'show the flag' in a public relations exercise and to strengthen ties across the Empire. Much publicised, the cruise served as a subtle reminder that in the aftermath of the Great War, Britannia still ruled the waves. This book charts the situation faced by Great Britain and the Royal Navy in the years immediately after the Great War, and details the origins of the cruise before charting the course of the expedition.

Author : Kenneth M. Failor,Eleonora Hayden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Medals
ISBN : UIUC:30112024971399

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Medals of the United States Mint by Kenneth M. Failor,Eleonora Hayden Pdf