![]() ![]() Interestingly, a number of precursors of future events can be found in this study - for example, the United States’ first (but far from last) conflict with an Islamic power, and the lessons the young Theodore Roosevelt drew from the War of 1812 and would later put into effect during his own presidency. S&S Audio, 29.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-7435-3684-4 Its hard to imagine a better place for listening to this shrewdly abridged. ![]() Out of the careers of these ships and their officers Ian Toll spins a fascinating and rip-roaring story of battles at sea (and no less vicious political infighting ashore) which rivals anything in Patrick O’Brian’s fiction - in fact, O’Brian made free use of these historical incidents in writing some of his own Jack Aubrey novels. ![]() In the end, George Washington’s administration decided to build six large frigates more powerful than comparable ships in other navies - one of these six being the still-surviving USS Constitution now on view here in Boston. ![]() Few people realize how close the United States came to not having a Navy at all - Jefferson, for one, insisted that the equivalent of the Coast Guard would be perfectly adequate. Toll Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. ![]()
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