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In 1794, President Washington signed legislation authorizing the construction of six heavy frigates. The unique combination of power, speed and tactical versatility — smaller than a battleship and larger than a sloop — that all navies sent on their most daring missions. It was the first great appropriation of federal money and the first demonstration of the power of the new central government, calling for the creation of entirely new domestic industries, and the extraction of natural resources from the backwoods of Maine to the uninhabited coastal islands of Georgia.
From the complicated politics of the initial decision, through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. In the words of Henry Adams, the 1812 encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere "raised the United States in one half hour to the rank of a first class power in the world."
- Ian W. Toll - Author
- Stephen Lang - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780743565295
- File size: 207456 KB
- Release date: October 3, 2006
- Duration: 07:12:11
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9780743565295
- File size: 207482 KB
- Release date: October 3, 2006
- Duration: 07:12:09
- Number of parts: 6
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