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By Lawrence Burr
On the finish of the Civil warfare the USA military used to be the main technologically complicated military on this planet, yet after the battle this spirit of innovation pale and America's naval may possibly diminished. even if, within the Eighteen Eighties a "New Navy" used to be born and on the leading edge of its fleet have been the powerful cruisers. Lawrence Burr info the way it was once those cruisers that allowed the United States to once more demonstrate its strength at the world's oceans. Exploring how the delivery of this "Steel Navy" required the improvement of latest shipbuilding, intent energy, ordnance, and armour-plate creation potential, he info the layout and improvement of those ships.
Intricate color paintings illuminates the technicalities of the layout, particularly their inner workings via a cutaway of the USS Olympia, which has been restored and is now on public reveal. This name additionally locations those technological advances in context, via vibrant debts of ways US cruisers have been basic to the Spanish-American warfare of 1898, destroying the Spanish fleet on the battles of Manila Bay and Santiago. It used to be their functionality at those engagements that marked the emergence of the U.S. military as a tremendous naval energy, and the USA as a global power.
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