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USNI NEWS Video: USS Constitution is Getting a Mast Makeover

17 August 2023

USS Constitution moored in Boston on Aug. 7, 2023. USNI News Photo

ABOARD FRIGATE USS CONSTITUTION – The oldest warship afloat looked skeletal moored in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston with no sails.
A ship without sails is common for the modern Navy, but for USS Constitution, the sheets of advanced polyester designed to look like flax cloth are a crucial part of the 226-year-old frigate’s structure.

The reason for the bare look is Old Ironsides is going through a major repair, Constitution...

https://news.usni.org/2023/08/16/usni-news-video-uss-constitution-is-getting-a-mast-makeover

BOOK REVIEW | Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic

15 September 2022

This fine book covers a very unusual subject, though it does cover that subject very well. It describes the development of an effective naval culture, particularly a comm ..

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FreightWaves Classics/Infrastructure: First plan for national infrastructure issued in 1808

4 April 2022

The Erie Canal in 1829. (Image: transportgeograpy.org)

In 1807, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution requesting the U.S. Treasury Department to prepare and submit “a plan for the application of such means are within the power of Congress, to the purposes of opening roads, and making canals,” and other recommendations on how the federal government could improve what was then an inadequate and fragmented national transportation system.

On April 4, 1808, President Thomas Jefferson’s Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin submitted a wide-ranging...

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First steel cut for Royal Canadian Navy’s fifth AOPS

21 May 2021

Canada’s Irving Shipbuilding has cut the first steel for the fifth Harry DeWolf-class Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS) that the company will supply to the Roy ..

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Report on Use of U.S. Armed Force Abroad: 1798-2018

2 January 2019

The following is the Dec. 28, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2018.

From the Report

This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its Armed Forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes. It was compiled in part from various older lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough survey of past U.S. military ventures abroad,...

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