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Title: Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812
Volume 1
Author: Alfred Thayer Mahan
Release Date: June 30, 2008 [EBook #25911]
Language: English
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[Illustration: The Impressment of an American Seaman]
SEA POWER IN ITS RELATIONS
TO THE WAR OF
1812
BY
CAPTAIN A.T. MAHAN, D.C.L., LL.D.
United States Navy
AUTHOR OF "THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783," "THE
INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
AND EMPIRE," "THE INTEREST OF AMERICA
IN SEA POWER," ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY
LIMITED
PREFACE
The present work concludes the series of "The Influence of Sea Power
upon History," as originally framed in the conception of the author.
In the previous volumes he has had the inspiring consciousness of
regarding his subject as a positive and comma
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