"FOR THE PURPOSES OF DEFENSE":
THE POLITICS OF THE JEFFERSONIAN GUNBOAT PROGRAM

Gene A. Smith

University of Delaware Press, 1995. NF/NF. Plates, extensive notes & bibliography, index, 185 pages. "... examines the politics and ideology of the fleet of small shallow-draft vessels commissioned by President Jefferson that dominated the U.S. Navy during the first two decades of the nineteenth century."

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