عنوان

Clad in iron :

(alk. paper)

(alk. paper)

0313345902

9780313345906

b510873

Clad in iron :

[Book]

the American Civil War and the challenge of British naval power /

Howard J. Fuller ; foreword by Robert J. Schneller, Jr

Westport, Conn. :

Praeger Security International,

2008

xxix, 409 p. :

ill. ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-386) and index

Deterring Columbia: British Naval Supremacy -- An ironclad race with France -- Industry and Conversion Problems -- Enter Captain Coles -- The Specter of modern coastal defense and assault -- two ironclad adversaries: the Confederacy and Great Britain -- Building the Monitor -- Effect of the Trent affair -- Congress Debates the "20 Ironclad Gunboats" -- the fulcrum of Hamptom Roads -- Hampton Roads and its consequences -- Super-monitors, super-guns -- Ericsson, the Navy and Control of the Union Ironclad program -- British reactions to Hampton Roads and the "Monitor Riddle" -- Enter E.J. Reed, Naval Architect -- Palmerston's Policy -- Deterring Britannia: the Trent affair reversed -- Cole loses ground -- the practical concerns against British intervention -- Summer of 1862: the tide turns against the union -- the Passaic crisis -- shifting ironclad confidence -- regaining the strategic initiative? -- Culmination and Consequence: "The Fiery Focus

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Great Britain.-- History-- 19th century

United States.-- History-- Civil War, 1861-1865

Armored vessels-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Armored vessels-- United States-- History-- 19th century

Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862

Sea-power-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Sea-power-- United States-- History-- 19th century

Trent Affair, 1861

Great Britain, Foreign relations, United States

United States, Foreign relations, Great Britain

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Fuller, Howard J.,1968-

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