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Six Frigates Ian W. Toll

Six Frigates By Ian W. Toll

Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll


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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy by Ian W. Toll

How a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting humbled the omnipotent British Navy.

Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce against the Mediterranean pirates, or drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? The foundersparticularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adamsdebated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once. How much of a navy would suffice? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships.

From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliffhanger 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 a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. According to Henry Adams, the 1812 encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere raised the United States in one half hour to the rank of a first class power in the world. 16 pages of illustrations; 8 pages of color.

About Ian W. Toll

Ian W. Toll is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Conquering Tide, Pacific Crucible, and Six Frigates, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. Colby Award. He lives in New York.

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CIN0393058476VG
9780393058475
0393058476
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy by Ian W. Toll
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20061003
576
N/A
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