Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Commodore Robert F. Stockton, 1795-1866: Protean Man for a Protean Nation. ISBN 1604976306 9781604976304 [GB]

ISBN10: 1604976306, ISBN13: 9781604976304, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
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ISBN10: 1604976306, ISBN13: 9781604976304, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Stockton first made his reputation as 'Fighting Bob' in the defense of Baltimore in the War of 1812, and, on his first naval command, he founded Liberia for freed slaves. Yet he also owned slaves on his sugar plantation in Georgia, and later probably used 'rented' slave labor his in Virginia gold mines. As a naval officer, he chased pirates with the West Indies Squadron and may have been responsible for the death of Jean Lafitte; yet he acted like a pirate himself in ruthlessly protecting his Joint Companies' monopoly of railroad and canal traffic across New Jersey. Stockton achieved nautical design prominence by bringing John Ericsson to America to create the first steam-powered, propeller-driven warship and the most powerful cannon in the world. (Ericsson later designed USS Monitor in the Civil War.) However, in demonstrating his cannon to high government officials, the cannon backfired killing nearly half of President Tyler's cabinet. From Congress and the President, Stockton brought the invitation of annexation to Texas, but then he tried to initiate a war between Texas and Mexico that he would clandestinely underwrite with profits from his transportation monopoly. He sailed to California arriving at the start of the Mexican-American war so that he was the commander-in-chief of all US ...
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