![]() WorldCat record id: 46384159Īlfred Thayer Mahan, U.S. WorldCat record id: 739098465įrom the description of Letter, December 22. WorldCat record id: 707627932Īlfred Thayer Mahan, Navy admiral and naval historian, was president of the Naval War College, 1886-1888, 1892-1893 and author of The Influence of Seapower on History.įrom the description of Letter, October 29, 1911. WorldCat record id: 707634728įrom the description of Letter, June 16, 1905. WorldCat record id: 707631898įrom the description of Letter, June 6, 1905. ![]() WorldCat record id: 707636778įrom the description of Letter, June 8, 1905. WorldCat record id: 707630761įrom the description of Letter, June 4, 1905. WorldCat record id: 707629062įrom the description of Letter, June 10, 1905. ![]() WorldCat record id: 707636250įrom the description of Letter. WorldCat record id: 707628898įrom the description of Letter, June 8, 1905. Mahan was president of the Naval War College, 1886-1889, 1893-1894.įrom the description of Letter, June 14, 1905. WorldCat record id: 17966417įrom the description of Papers of A. ![]() WorldCat record id: 17944372įrom the description of Certificate, June 12, 1894. WorldCat record id: 18421169įrom the description of Certificate, 1855. WorldCat record id: 17944203įrom the description of Certificate, 1856. WorldCat record id: 17939616įrom the description of Commission, April 13, 1911. WorldCat record id: 728651332įrom the description of Commission, October 2, 1856. WorldCat record id: 17944191įrom the description of Letter, March 29 (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 17944229įrom the description of Commission, February 19, 1862. His Influence of Seapower on History was published in 1890.įrom the description of Notebook, ?-1880. He served as second president of the Naval War College, 1885-1886 and again in 1892-1893. Against the better judgment of his father, Mahan then entered the Naval Academy, where he graduated second in his class in 1859.Alfred T. He then studied at Columbia for two years, where he was a member of the Philolexian Society debating club. Mahan attended Saint James School, an Episcopal college preparatory academy in western Maryland. Mahan's middle name honors "the father of West Point", Sylvanus Thayer. Alfred Thayer Mahan (SeptemDecember 1, 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century."His book the The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) won immediate recognition, especially in Europe, and with its successor, The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812 (1892), made him world famous and perhaps the most influential American author of the nineteenth century.Mahan was born on September 27, 1840, at West Point, New York, to Dennis Hart Mahan (a professor at the United States Military Academy) and Mary Helena Okill Mahan (27 February 1815 - 8 March 1893), daughter of John Okill and Mary Jay (daughter of Sir James Jay). The book then goes on to describe a series of European and American wars and how naval power was used in each. Mahan also promotes the belief that any army would succumb to a strong naval blockade. He identifies such features as geography, population, and government, and expands the definition of sea power as comprising a strong navy and commercial fleet. Mahan began the book with an examination of what factors lead to a supremacy of the seas, especially how Great Britain was able to rise to its near dominance. Its policies were quickly adopted by most major navies, ultimately leading to the World War I naval arms race.Mahan formulated his concept of sea power while reading a history book in Lima, Peru.The book was published by Mahan while president of the US Naval War College, and was a culmination of his ideas regarding naval warfare. Scholars consider it the single most influential book in naval strategy. It details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discusses the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660-1783 is a history of naval warfare published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
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