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Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War

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 ❯
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The Warrior’s Influence Abroad: The American Civil War

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 ❯
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“Friends in Peace and War” The Russian Navy’s Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco

The arrival of the Imperial Russian Navy’s Pacific squadron at San Francisco in July 1863, where it remained for a year, has been interpreted in several distinctly different ways. While the relationship between the United States and Tsarist Russia might, at first glance, seem to be unusual, linking a democratic republic with a repressive autocratic … CONTINUE READING ❯
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