| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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| 杜威分類號: |
973.3/5 |
| 書名/作者: |
George Washington's secret navy : how the American revolution went to sea // James L. Nelson. |
| 作者: |
Nelson, James L. |
| 出版者: |
New York : : McGraw-Hill,, c2008. |
| 面頁冊數: |
xiii, 378 p. : : ill., maps |
| 標題: |
United States - Economic conditions - To 1865. |
| ISBN: |
0071493891 |
| ISBN: |
9780071493895 |
| ISBN: |
9780071643429 |
| 內容註: |
The British command -- The greatest events, in the present age -- Noddles Island -- Machias sons of liberty -- "The amiable, generous and brave George Washington, Esquire" -- New Lords, new laws -- "We have the utmost reason to expect any attack" -- The Congressional Navy cabal -- "Our weakness & the enemy's strength at sea" -- George Washington's secret navy -- Hannah puts to sea -- Dolphin and industry -- Building and equipping an American fleet -- Marblehead boats at Beverly -- "Not a moment of time be lost" -- The empire strikes back -- Hancock and Franklin -- Congress pays a visit -- "For gods sake hurry off the vessels" -- Lee's autumn cruise -- "The blundering Captn Coit" -- Convoys and cruisers -- "Hard gales and squally" -- "[U]niversal joy ran through the whole" -- "His people are contentd" -- "And a privateering we will go, my boys" -- A new army -- A new year -- A new fleet -- Commodore of the fleet -- "[A] stroke well aim'd" -- "It is with the greatest pleasure I inform you" -- Epilogue: Washington rides south. |
| 電子資源: |
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