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Naval Institute Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Date: 2000. Hardcover. Hardback; very good in marked dustjacket. ; The American shipbuilding program of the late eighteenth century. Illustrated. ; 262 pages . 2000. Naval Institute Press ISBN 155750508X 9781557505088 [GB]

ISBN10: 155750508X, ISBN13: 9781557505088, [publisher: Naval Institute Press 18/05/2000] Hardcover UNUSED
[Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 155750508X, ISBN13: 9781557505088, [publisher: Naval Institute Press] Hardcover First Edition ISBN 155750508X. Hardback. First Printing with number line going down to 2 as is typical of this publisher. Near Fine Condition book in a Near Fine Condition Dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. As new condition. Copy One.
[Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 155750508X, ISBN13: 9781557505088, [publisher: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis] Hardcover 8vo pp.262
[Edmonton, AB, Canada] [Publication Year: 1999]

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, Date: 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. 2000. Naval Institute Press ISBN 155750508X 9781557505088 [US]

ISBN10: 155750508X, ISBN13: 9781557505088, [publisher: Naval Institute Press, (2000), Annapolis, MD:] Hardcover First Edition First printing Fine in 1/4 dark blue cloth and tan paper covered boards with bold, gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 5 3/4". In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with minor curling at the upper edge of the spine area. 262 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, appendices and text. Illustrated with a section of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art. The author examines the development of the warships constructed to engage in "The Quasi-War with France" during the late 1790's. An attractive, bright copy with no prior ownership marks of any kind.
[Deep River, CT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
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Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, Date: 2000. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 264 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The title of this book refers to the toast "millions for defense, not a cent for tribute" that became popular in America during the late 1790s as the country teetered towards open war with France. Incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and France's galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, Americans were provoked to action, as this book recounts so vividly. The United States had no fleet in the 1790s, Congress having sold off the last Continental Navy warships more than ten years earlier. As war with France seemed imminent, private U.S. citizens decided to help build a Navy. Merchants from Newburyport, Massachusetts, took the lead by opening a subscription to fund a 20-gun warship to be built in ninety days, and they persuaded Congress to pass a statute that gave them government "stock" bearing six percent interest in exchange for their money. Their example set off a chain reaction down the coast with more than a thousand subscribers in ten port towns pledging money and actually beginning to build nine warships with little government oversight. Among the subscription ships were the frigates Philadelphia, later lost on the rocks off Tripoli; Essex, the first American warship to round the Cape of Good Hope; and Boston, which captured the French corvette Le Berceau but ...