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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465430603321

Autore

Friend Jack <1929->

Titolo

West wind, flood tide : the Battle of Mobile Bay / / Jack Friend

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-61251-351-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/5

Soggetti

Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface ; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART ONE: EVOLUTION OF A BATTLE ; 1. Ram Fever ; 2. A New General in Chief; 3. The Decision to Attack ; 4. The Plan ; 5. The Attack Is Canceled; 6. A New Plan ; 7. More Delay ; 8. Manhattan Joins the Fleet; 9. Tecumseh Reaches Pensacola; PART TWO: THE END OF THE BEGINNING ; 10. Girding for Battle ; 11. The Troops Embark ; 12. The River Monitors Arrive ; 13. So Daring a Plan ; 14. The Army Lands ; 15. The Navy Is Late ; 16. Tecumseh Steams In ; 17. Get Under Way ; PART THREE: A STORM CLOUD ALL AGLOW; 18. Catastrophe; 19. Go Ahead ; 20. Gauntlet

21. Gunboat Fight 22. Melee ; 23. Surrender ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<div>One of history''s greatest naval engagements and the Civil War''s bloodiest is examined for both its political ramifications and influence on naval tactics and ship design.</div>