Six Frigates The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

by Toll,Ian W.

• ISBN13: 9780393330328
• ISBN10: 039333032X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders'”particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams'”debated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect from pirates or drain the treasury and provoke hostility? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships. From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliff-hanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and the narrative flair of Patrick O'Brian.

Table of Contents

Debts of Gratitude	p. IX
Note on Language and Nautical Terminology	p. XIII
To Provide and Maintain	p. 1
To the Shores of Tripoli	p. 145
England Again	p. 255
Epilogue	p. 453
Chronology of Later Events: 1815-2005	p. 469
Notes	p. 483
Bibliography	p. 525
Index	p. 541
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