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The Jeffersonian Gunboat Navy

The Jeffersonian Gunboat Navy
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Download or read book The Jeffersonian Gunboat Navy written by Spencer Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the naval gunboat program pursued during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency--a program with disastrous effects on American naval strategy during the War of 1812. Ignoring the axiom that navies should be large enough and diverse enough not only to defend but to attack, Jefferson authorized the building of approximately 170 small gunboats rather than large seagoing vessels. Less than 70 feet in length and built for shallow water, gunboats had been employed by the United States since the Revolution. Often referred to as miserable, wretched, or useless by historians, gunboats have been criticized as unstable craft that could fight only on the calmest of seas. The author, however identifies both the positive and negative aspects of Jefferson’s gunboat program and points to the close alliances between politics and military policy that prompted Jefferson’s action.


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