West wind, flood tide : the Battle of Mobile Bay / / Jack Friend
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| Autore: |
Friend Jack <1929->
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| Titolo: |
West wind, flood tide : the Battle of Mobile Bay / / Jack Friend
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| Pubblicazione: | Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2004 |
| ©2004 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.7/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864 |
| 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> |
| Titolo autorizzato: | West wind, flood tide |
| ISBN: | 1-61251-351-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814185103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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