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1180115Hard Agroundhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/hard-aground/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1222946/d791a9e7-556d-44a0-88a9-604f3d2c400a.jpg?v=638337646964700000487676MXNUniversity of Alabama PressInStock/Ebooks/1170618Hard Aground487676https://www.gandhi.com.mx/hard-aground/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1222946/d791a9e7-556d-44a0-88a9-604f3d2c400a.jpg?v=638337646964700000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239780817394219_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9780817394219_<p><strong>Three intertwined stories highlighting the many challenges the US Navy faced during strategic and material evolution</strong></p><p><em>Hard Aground</em> brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navys strategic and matériel evolution following the end of the Civil War through the First World War. These incidents had lasting consequences for how the navy would modernize itself throughout the rest of the twentieth century.</p><p>The first story focuses on the reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War. This reconstruction began with barely enough time for the navys campaigns in the Spanish-American War, and for its role in the First World War. Jampoler argues that the federal government discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by Congress, was the wrong fleet. Focus was on battleships and cruisers rather than destroyers and other small combat vessels needed to hunt submarines and serve as convoy escorts.</p><p>The second story relates the short, tragic life of the USS <em>Tennessee</em> (later renamed Memphis), one of the steel-hulled ships of the new Armored Cruiser Squadron that was a centerpiece of the navys modernization effort. The USS <em>Tennessee</em> was ordered on two unusual missions in the early months of World War I, long before the United States formally entered the war. These little know missions and the sudden destruction of the ship by a storm surge in the Caribbean serves as the centerpiece of the story. Threaded through the narrative are biographical sketches of the principal players in the drama that unfolded following the ships demise, including two of <em>Tennessee</em>s commanding officers: Vice Admiral Sims, who commanded the US Navy squadrons deployed to Europe in support of the Royal Navy; Rear Admiral William Caperton, who commanded the Caribbean squadron before the <em>Memphis</em> (formerly the <em>Tennessee</em>) was lost; Charles Pond, squadron commander during the wreck; and the American ambassador to the Ottoman court, President Wilsons enthusiastic supporter, Henry Morgenthau. Jampoler concludes with an account of how the USS <em>Tennessee</em>s destruction prompted fierce deliberations about the US Navys operations and chains of command for the remainder of the First World War and the high-level political wrangling inside the Department of the Navy immediately after the war, as civilian appointees and senior officers wrestled to reshape the department in their image.</p>...(*_*)9780817394219_<p><strong>Three intertwined stories that reveal the challenges faced by the US Navy in its evolution between the Civil War and the First World War</strong></p><p><em>Hard Aground</em> brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navys strategic and matériel evolution from the end of Civil War through the First World War. These incidents had lasting consequences for how the navy would modernize itself throughout the rest of the twentieth century.</p><p>The first story focuses on the reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War. This reconstruction began with barely enough time for the navys campaigns in the Spanish-American War, and for its role in the First World War. Jampoler argues that the federal government discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by Congress, was the wrong fleet. Focus was on battleships and cruisers rather than destroyers and other small combat vessels needed to hunt submarines and serve as convoy escorts.</p><p>The second story relates the short, tragic life of the USS <em>Tennessee</em> (later renamed Memphis), one of the steel-hulled ships of the new Armored Cruiser Squadron that was a centerpiece of the navys modernization effort. The USS <em>Tennessee</em> was ordered on two unusual missions in the early months of the First World War, long before the United States formally entered the war. These little-known missions and the ships shocking destruction in a storm surge in the Caribbean serve as the centerpiece of the story. Threaded through the narrative are biographical sketches of the principal players in the drama that unfolded following the ships demise, including two of <em>Tennessee</em>s commanding officers: Vice Admiral Sims, who commanded the US Navy squadrons deployed to Europe in support of the Royal Navy; Rear Admiral William Caperton, who commanded the Caribbean squadron before the <em>Memphis</em> (formerly the <em>Tennessee</em>) was lost; Charles Pond, squadron commander during the wreck; and the American ambassador to the Ottoman court, President Wilsons enthusiastic supporter, Henry Morgenthau.</p><p>Jampoler rounds out this fascinating account with the story of how the USS <em>Tennessee</em>s destruction prompted fierce deliberations about the US Navys operations and chains of command for the remainder of the First World War and the high-level political wrangling inside the Department of the Navy immediately after the war, as civilian appointees and senior officers wrestled to reshape the department in their image.</p>...9780817394219_University of Alabama Presslibro_electonico_7f9a7ab9-0bf9-30d7-8154-b2959af6071d_9780817394219;9780817394219_9780817394219Andrew C.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-68bdeab5-619e-4709-aea2-2124b3d798f9.epub2023-03-07T00:00:00+00:00University of Alabama Press