The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic /
The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in 1802. Why, then, did it take this maritime nation 43 more years to create a similar school for the navy? Leeman examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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