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Edward Preble’s Enduring Influence: The Barbary Wars and the Shaping of U.S. Naval Culture

Introduction

The United States Navy was barely an experiment in the early 1800s. The country had no institutional structure for cultivating naval leadership, no permanent fleet, and no great maritime legacy. Often self-taught or informally trained,

"Why War in 1812?" by Jim Gallen, JD

Why did the United States go to War in 1812? What compelled this nation, less than thirty years from its War of Independence with a vast wilderness awaiting development and hostile Indians beyond its frontiers, choose to take on its former colonia

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18TH AND 19TH CENTURY WAR AND CONFLICT

Edward Preble’s Enduring Influence: The Barbary Wars and the Shaping of U.S. Naval Culture

"Why War in 1812?" by Jim Gallen, JD

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