Showing posts with label naval warfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label naval warfare. Show all posts
Sunday, July 19, 2026

How our Founding Fathers fought the Barbary Pirates

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“[The Congress shall have the power] To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas , and offences against the law of...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Piracy played a role, early in the “Second” Hundred Years’ War

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“When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village [Hannibal, Missouri] on the west bank of the Missis...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Great naval conflicts: From the Seven Years’ War to the Napoleonic Wars

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Many pirate movies take place in this general time period, and so do many history movies I grew up on pirate movies like “Treasure Island,” ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Naval air power: Aircraft carrier tactics in the Pacific War

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In Italy, the distant Battle of Taranto proved the effectiveness of aircraft carriers In November 1940, a British   aircraft carrier  launch...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

U-boats in the Great War: The other “Battle of the Atlantic”

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German U-boats were once the terror of the high seas, and this was true during both world wars. In the  First World War , this campaign had ...
Friday, November 8, 2024

American naval power: Playing a crucial role in the rise of the United States

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“An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, shipping of goods, wares, a...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

A review of the “BBC History of World War II”

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Note: This is a collection of several BBC documentaries about World War II. That is to say, it is not a unified history like  “The World at ...