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Pacific Ocean Campaign 1842-1844

By: Rose Wind Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Rose Wind Press)

Last Stocked on 11/17/2023

Product Info

Title
Pacific Ocean Campaign 1842-1844
Publisher
Category
Author
Mary Kline Rose, L. Stuart Taylor
Publish Year
2004
Pages
192
Dimensions
8.5x11x1"
NKG Part #
2147941654
Type
Softcover

Description

More than 160 years ago, Edward W. Taylor penned this extraordinary journal while experiencing real life adventures as an observant young marine who guarded Commodore Thomas Catesby Jones, a controversial Commander of the Pacific Fleet in the mid-1800s. Examining a period of American history that is little known and far less documented, Taylor's journal is augmented by official letters, ship logs, memoirs, and other journalists' remarks. Based on the outcome of this voyage, dueling was abolished among officers, the rations of rum was eliminated from the fleet, and flogging was permanently outlawed as naval punishment.