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Автор: Lorraine McConaghy
Название: Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West
ISBN: 9780295989556
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Морская история

Военно-морские силы и военные действия

ISBN-10: 0295989556
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 344
Вес: 1.27 кг.
Дата издания: 2009-10-26
Серия: Emil and kathleen sick book series in western history and biography
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 53 illus.
Размер: 231 x 263 x 39
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: History of the Americas,Military history,Naval forces & warfare, HISTORY / Military / Naval,HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877),HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
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Ordered to join the Pacific Squadron in 1854, the sloop of war Decatur sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Strait of Magellan to Valparaiso, Honolulu, and Puget Sound, then on to San Francisco, Panama, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, while serving in the Pacific until 1859, the eve of the Civil War. Historian Lorraine McConaghy presents the ship, its officers, and its crew in a vigorous, keenly rendered case study that illuminates the forces shaping Americas antebellum navy and foreign policy in the Pacific, from Vancouver Island to Tierra del Fuego.

One of only five ships in the squadron, the Decatur participated in numerous imperial adventures in the Far West, enforcing treaties, fighting Indians, suppressing vigilantes, and protecting commerce. With its graceful lines and towering white canvas sails, the ship patrolled the sandy border between ocean and land.

Warship under Sail focuses on four episodes in the Decaturs Pacific Squadron mission: the harrowing journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan; a Seattle war story that contested American treaties and settlements; participation with other squadron ships on a U.S. State Department mission to Nicaragua; and more than a year spent anchored off Panama as a hospital ship. In a period of five years, more than 300 men lived aboard ship, leaving a rich record of logbooks, medical and punishment records, correspondence, personal journals, and drawings. Lorraine McConaghy has mined these records to offer a compelling social history of a warship under sail. Her research adds immeasurably to our understanding of the lives of ordinary men at sea and American expansionism in the antebellum Pacific West.

Дополнительное описание:

Preface
Introduction
1. Young America on the Pacific: "The Sailor of Manifest Destiny Views"
2. The Decatur in the Old Navy: "To Command Our Own Seas and Coasts"
3. Boston: Getting Under Way
4. Episode 1. Through the Strait of

Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West, Lorraine McConaghy