The C.S.S. Florida: Her Building and Operations
The dramatic account of a Confederate ship that did millions of dollars' damage to the U.S. merchant marine fleet during the Civil War. Commerce raiders such as the Alabama and the Florida were a successful component of the confederacy's naval campaign against the Union. Devices of a lesser navy, these surface cruisers prowled the coastal seas to engage and interrupt vital commerce of their better-equipped, more powerful adversary. The C.S.S. Florida, in just two cruises before her capture, inflicted significant damage to Union cargo and ships, estimated at more than $4,000,000. The Florida struggled from the beginning. It had to be financed…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8173-1281-7
- EAN: 9780817312817
- Produktnummer: 9946414
- Verlag: Univ Of Alabama Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H21.3 cm x B14.3 cm x D1.5 cm 308 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 308
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