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Sto caricando le informazioni... Millions for Defense: The Subscription Warships of 1798di Frederick C. Leiner
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The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s??millions for defense, not a cent for tribute." Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and by France's galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, and as they teetered towards open war, were disturbed by their country's lack of warships. Provoked to action, private U.S. citizens decided to help build a navy. Merchants from Newburyport, Massachusetts, took the lead by opening a subscription to fund a 20-gun warship to be built in ninety days, and they persuaded Congress to pass a s Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)359Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Navy; Naval ScienceClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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