Six Frigates
Six Frigates Before the ink was dry on the U.S. The founders--particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams--debated fiercely. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most…
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Six Frigates
Before the ink was dry on the U.S. The founders--particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams--debated fiercely. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government.
Would a navy protect from pirates or drain the treasury and provoke hostility? Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships.From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliff-hanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W.
Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and the narrative flair of Patrick