12/6/2023 If by sea : the forging of the american navy-- from the american revolution to the war of 1812Read Now![]() By contrast, a coastal defense force of small ships threatened nobody, foreign or domestic. The question then was whether a navy would concentrate too much authority in the central government and risk embroiling the new country in foreign quarrels. The fleet established by the Continental Congress had a relatively undistinguished career, but Daughan demonstrates that the Americans gained technical experience, produced talented officers, trained seamen and developed a basic understanding of how a navy should be employed. Daughan instead traces its roots to the Revolution. Conventional wisdom has the navy beginning in the 1790s. Daughan brings a long academic career and solid command of his sources to this provocative history of the origins of the U.S.
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