Author: Alexander Slidell MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a Commander in the Navy of the United States, &c
Author: Alexander Slidell MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
America's Naval Heritage
Author: Thomas Truxtun MoebsPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial
Author: United States Navy DepartmentPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902058X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Proceedings of the naval court martial in the case of A. Slidell Mackenzie ... including the charges and specifications of charges, preferred against him by the Secretary of the Navy. To which is annexed, an elaborate review, by J. F. Cooper
Author: afterwards SLIDELL MACKENZIE SLIDELL (Alexander)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Curse of the Somers
Author: James P. DelgadoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197575226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy's greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact The greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the U.S. brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and his co-conspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea. The repercussions of those acts brought headlines, scandal, a fistfight at a cabinet meeting, a court martial, ruined lives, lost reputations, and tales of a haunted ship bound for the devil and lost tragically at sea with many of its crew. The Somers affair led to the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy and it remains the Navy's only acknowledged mutiny in its history. The story also inspired Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Billy Budd. Others connected to the Somers included Commodore Perry, a relation and defender of the Somers' captain Mackenzie; James Fenimore Cooper, whose feud with the captain, dating back to the War of 1812, resurfaced in his reportage of the affair; and Raphael Semmes, the Somers' last caption who later served in the Confederate Navy. The Curse of the Somers is a thorough recreation of this classic tale, told with the help of recently uncovered evidence. Written by a maritime historian and archaeologist who helped identify the long-lost wreck and subsequently studied its sunken remains, this is a timeless tale of life and death at sea. James P. Delgado re-examines the circumstances, drawing from a rich historical record and from the investigation of the ship's sunken remains. What surfaces is an all-too-human tale that resonates and chills across the centuries.
America's naval heritage: A Catalog of Early Imprints From the Navy Department Library
Author: Thomas Truxtun MoebsPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160873126
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.
Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
A Selected List of Works in the Library Relating to Naval History, Naval Administration, Etc
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description