登入
選單
返回
Google圖書搜尋
Two Years on the Alabama
Arthur Sinclair
出版
Lee and Shepard
, 1896
主題
History / Military / Vehicles / Sea
ISBN
0722282184
9780722282182
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=husaAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
FULL_PUBLIC_DOMAIN
註釋
"Confederate proclamation of nationhood was backed by an energetic and reasonably well equipped land defense. Not so for its coastal and sea defenses; much of its hope of tipping the balance in its contention with the Union rested on international support, trade, and naval defense. In search of a naval arm to counter Northern superiority on the seas, the South turned to foreign sources for a seaborne arm. Confederate agents in England cagily used scarce gold, promises of cotton, and British sympathy to obtain the devastating naval weapons of speedy and deadly raiders. Foremost among these was the Alabama, a screw steamer with full sail power, launched in May 1862. In only twenty-two months of action, this ship engaged nearly 300 vessels and destroyed 55 Northern merchant ships worth millions of dollars."--BOOK JACKET.