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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the role of America's navy during the War of 1812, from its humble beginnings to its evolution as a force that helped to establish the nation's global position, and describes the government debate about America's need for a navy.
6) A battle won
Author
Series
Charles Hayden novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After being tasked with taking HMS Themis into battle against the French for the strategically located island of Corsica, Master and Commander Charles Hayden soon must land his ship on Corsica, where his men join forces with native insurgents.
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After peace between France and England abruptly ends, Captain Alan Lewrie must flee Paris, but soon he has a chance to seek revenge on his former French host in a stunning sea chase that will test him like no other challenge he has faced.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Completing rescue operations in Haiti and returning to London to receive honors from George III, Captain Alan Lewrie immediately finds himself back at sea, where he must defend the English Channel from Napoleon's planned invasion.
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 11
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 13
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery{u2014}but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle drawn from the history of the United States Navy, with outcomes both glorious and notorious At the heart of Admiral James Stavridis's training as a naval officer was the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in battle when it arises and make the best decision...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union warship Kearsarge in an all-or-nothing fight to the finish, the outcome of which would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.
Two award-winning historians bring to life the greatest Civil War battle at sea, which was fought...
18) H.M.S. Cockerel
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Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Alan Lewrie, swashbuckling naval warrior turned family man, longs for battle. And when it comes, a royal battle it is! Called to the "H.M.S. Cockerel", First Officer Lewrie soon vaults to command. Fine.
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