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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The hydra of secession -- All was saved but our honor -- Beauty and booty -- Come and take the city -- These people can do nothing without gunboats -- The importance of a vigorous blockade -- Bearding the lion in his den -- We have no vessel of sufficient speed -- Every little bayou -- Misfortunes seldom come singly -- Give me wooden ships and iron hearts -- The black devil and the pup -- Where the devil is the wind to come from -- Heigh-ho! The Sabine Pass? -- The blockade must be kept up -- Notwithstanding all our watchfulness -- Anything is preferable than lying on our oars -- Go ahead sir -- You had better surrender -- Blockade running ... is at an end. |
| Summary |
In Lincoln's Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union's naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay (Panama City), Florida to the Rio Grande River. As with the Navy's blockade squadrons operating in the Atlantic, the mission of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron was to cripple the South's economy by halting imports and disrupting cotton exports, the South's main source of hard currency. The bloc. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Navy. West Gulf Squadron.
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United States. Navy. West Gulf Squadron. |
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Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 -- Military leadership.
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Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870. |
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Command of troops. |
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United States. Navy -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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United States. Navy. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations.
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Mississippi River Valley -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
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Mexico, Gulf of -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Naval history.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Browning, Robert M. Jr., 1955- Lincoln's trident 9780817318468 (DLC) 2014019856 (OCoLC)881208682 |
| ISBN |
9780817387785 (electronic book) |
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0817387781 (electronic book) |
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9780817318468 |
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0817318461 |
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