Name: Andrew Foote: Civil war Admiral on Western Waters (Library of Naval Biography) (en Inglés)
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Author: Spencer C. Tucker
ISBN: 9781682473405

portada Andrew Foote: Civil war Admiral on Western Waters (Library of Naval Biography) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Naval Institute Press

Autor

Spencer C. Tucker

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

296

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781682473405

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Biografías de personas históricas, políticos y soldados

Andrew Foote: Civil war Admiral on Western Waters (Library of Naval Biography) (en Inglés)

Spencer C. Tucker (Autor) · Naval Institute Press · Tapa Blanda

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This biography traces the life and career of one of the U.S. Navy's first admirals, Andrew Hull Foote. As flag officer of the Union's western naval forces, Foote was a key figure in the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee and helped open the Confederate heartland to the Union. Later he shared in the victory at Island No. 10, an action that opened the upper Mississippi River to the Union.In this revealing portrait, Spencer Tucker describes Foote as emblematic of a period of great change in the American navy. Although very much an officer schooled in the tradition of the Old Navy, Foote considered himself first and foremost a staunch Christian and agent of Divine Will. An ardent social reformer, he crusaded zealously for abolition of the daily grog ration in the navy, and during his command of the brig Perry in the African squadron, he also became a leading advocate of the government's use of forceful measures to end the slave trade. In the 1850s Foote's career exemplified America's emerging international policy in the Far East when, in support of U.S. interests in China, he led a shore party to destroy coastal forts that had fired on U.S. ships. The first study of the admiral to be published in more than one hundred years, this work makes an important contribution to the literature of the period and to the series.