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Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War
May 13, 2021
It’s good news to see that scholarship like Saxon T. Bisbee’s Engines of Rebellion continues on the Confederate Navy’s ironclad program. Contemporary naval histories of the American Civil War like Admiral David Dixon Porter’s (1886) rather downplayed the South’s effort to maximise the latest technological advances in the naval state-of-the-art—in an asymmetric war effort against … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Warrior’s Influence Abroad: The American Civil War
October 10, 2013
By Howard J. Fuller University of Wolverhampton Quite simply, the Warrior altered the course of the American Civil War. HMS Warrior in drydock during her 1872-1875 refit. NHHC image NH 52524. This isn’t something that’s made its way into the history books—literally thousands of them, more and more, when it comes to the great ‘turning … CONTINUE READING ❯