Toll, Ian W.

Six frigates : the epic history of the founding of the U.S. Navy / Ian W. Toll. - 1st ed. - New York : Norton, c2006. - xii, 560 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-540) and index.

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The story of the creation of the U.S. Navy that chronicles the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century process that would launch the nation into becoming a powerful naval force.

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9780393058475 (hardcover) 0393058476 (hardcover)

2006020769


United States. Navy --History--18th century.
United States. Navy --History--19th century.
United States. Navy --History.


Frigates--History--United States--18th century.
Frigates--History--United States--19th century.
Frigates--History.
War of 1812--Naval operations.


United States--History--Naval operations.--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805
United States--History--Naval operations.--War of 1812
United States--History, Naval--18th century.
United states--History, Naval--19th century.
United States--Naval history.

E182 / .T65 2006

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