The United States Navy, a history

  • OCLC #: 1025999
  • Call #: E182.A353
  • Personal Collection:
    • The Henry J. Reilly Memorial Library Collection
  • Publisher: Chicago,Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott Co. [1943]
  • Physical Description: x, 452 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including maps) diagrams, plates, portraits 22 cm
  • Contents:
    • Beginnings of the Navy
    • War of independence
    • Establishment of the Navy Department. Quasi war with France. Tripolitan War
    • War of 1812 : early victories at sea
    • War of 1812 : later operations at sea
    • War on the lakes
    • Protection of commerce and national interests
    • War for the union : a divided nation
    • Establishing the blockade
    • Early combined operations of the Army and the Navy
    • Operations on the western rivers
    • Operations on the lower Mississippi
    • Further operations on the southern rivers and gulf
    • Decline of the Merchant Marine. The Confederate cruisers
    • Tightening the blockade
    • Bringing the war to an end
    • Old Navy, and the new
    • Our war with Spain
    • Santiago campaign
    • Navy backs diplomacy
    • First world war
    • First world war (continued)
    • Navy between wars (1918-1941)
    • Second World War (1939-1941)
    • Second World War, 1942.