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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.0097309033
EAN: 9780465016075
ISBN: 0465016073
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
Publisher: Basic Books
Sales Rank: 26952
Studio: Basic Books
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The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown. Revere and his companions rowed with muffled oars to avoid capture by the British warships closely guarding the harbor. As they paddled silently, Revere’s neighbor was flashing two lanterns from the belfry of Old North Church, signaling patriots in Charlestown that the redcoats were crossing the Charles River in longboats. In every major Revolutionary battle thereafter the sea would play a vital, if historically neglected, role. When the American colonies took up arms against Great Britain, they were confronting the greatest sea-power of the age. And it was during the War of Independence that the American Navy was born. But following the British naval model proved crushingly expensive, and the Founding Fathers fought viciously for decades over whether or not the fledgling republic truly needed a deep-water fleet. The debate ended only when the Federal Navy proved indispensable during the War of 1812. Drawing on decades of prodigious research, historian George C. Daughan chronicles the embattled origins of the U.S. Navy. From the bloody and gunpowder-drenched battles fought by American sailors on lakes and high seas to the fierce rhetorical combat waged by the Founders in Congress, If By Sea charts the course by which the Navy became a vital and celebrated American institution.
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I'm only about half way through it, but it is an interesting read. Daughan has an incredible amount of detail in the book. However, it is a history book, not a novel, and may be tedious to someone not interested in the American Revolution.
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If By Sea by George Daughan tells the story of the US Navy from the Revolution to the War of 1812 (1775-1815). The book covers the political, strategic, and tactical issues of the era, as well as the actual operations. Prof. Daughan has an extensive background. This book flows well, but still gets the facts in.
I read this book along with two other works, George Washington's Secret Navy (James L. Nelson) and Patriot Pirates (Robert H. Patton). Nelson's book recounts the the Siege of ... Read More
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IF BY SEA is an important, substantive work and a pleasure to read. I'm in awe of Daughan's overall knowledge of naval, military, political, economic, and social developments across the Atlantic world from 1775 to 1815. The author tells the whole story of the navy's development, beginning with the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 and ending with Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans in January, 1815. The entire panorama of people and events that influenced the navy's birth and ... Read More
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I am not sure what book the other reviewers read but I don't think it was If By Sea. This book is essentially a general history of the U.S. from the Revolution to the end of the War of 1812. Its general focus is on how the events of that period effected the formation of the U.S. Navy. Certainly not for serious naval readers and I did not find it to be tales of glory either.
If you are familiar with the era I think the book will bore you. Not due to the writing style which is straight ... Read More
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I enjoyed "If By Sea." It's well researched and well written. The author shows that one reason, among several, that the Colonies took time to GO NAVY was a shortage of funds. Only when they came together in a real union and managed to make an effort to pay off war debts, did they form a financial and political basis to build a fighting Navy. Early naval activity was mostly left to a needling effort by 'for profit' privateers. If we'd not changed our form of government and thought more broadly, ... Read More
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