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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