This Great Contest Afloat: The Civil War on the Seas, Coastline, Rivers, and Oceans (Chatelain) gift Height:1" Tall

Height:1" Tall

By Ron Kirkwood

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This Great Contest Afloat: The Civil War on the Seas, Coastline, Rivers, and Oceans (Chatelain) gift Height:1" Tallby Neil P. Chatelain Chatelain reveals how Civil War naval feats reshaped strategy, economy, and diplomacy across four theaters. History offers no example where so much was accomplished in so short a time, or where so many events were crowded into the space of four years, in which the Navy was employed subduing a coast over four thousand miles in length, and recapturing a river coast of more than five thousand miles, wrote Rear Admiral David Dixon