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Robert M. Browning Jr.
Robert M. Browning Jr. is Chief Historian of the United States Coast Guard. show more
Robert M. Browning Jr. is Chief Historian of the United States Coast Guard.
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markk rated it 7 years ago
The outbreak of war in 1861 posed a formidable set of challenges for the United States Navy. The relatively small force was given the dual tasks of blockading thousands of miles of coastline while supporting Army operations along the coast, while simultaneously suffering the loss of their facilities...
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markk rated it 8 years ago
My fifty-seventh podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Robert M. Browning, Jr. about his history of the operations of the U.S. Navy's West Gulf Blockade Squadron during the Civil War (which I reviewed here). Enjoy!
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markk rated it 8 years ago
Though there is no shortage of military histories of the Civil War, the vast majority of them focus primarily or exclusively on the campaigns on the land. This has the effect of unjustly minimizing the naval side of the war, which was decisive to its outcome. Faced with the North's industrial predom...
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