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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

Ian W. Toll

Hardcover | Pages: 560 pages

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Original Title:	Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
ISBN:	0393058476 (ISBN13: 9780393058475)
Edition Language:	English

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How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnipotent British Navy.


Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce against the Mediterranean pirates, or drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? The foundersparticularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adamsdebated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once. How much of a navy would suffice? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships.


From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliffhanger 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 a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. According to Henry Adams, the 1812 encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere "raised the United States in one half hour to the rank of a first class power in the world." 16 pages of illustrations; 8 pages of color.

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Title	:	Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
Author	:	Ian W. Toll
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 560 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2006 by W. W. Norton Company (first published October 2nd 2006)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. War. Military Fiction. Military. Military History. Naval History

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Six Frigates shows us how the interplay of politics and wars led to the establishment of a permanent US Navy. Toll, often in graphic detail, describes the Quasi-War against the French, the war against the Barbary Pirates and the War of 1812. Beyond these battles Toll also takes us to those between the Federalists and the Republicans, between Adams and Jefferson, and between a seafaring internationally focused New England and an agrarian locally focused South. The political arguments sound

The early history of the US navy's frigates, and their successes against the French, the British and especially the Barbary pirates were a staple of history classes when I was in public schools. This is an unabashedly US-centric view of those events. It's a history, though, not a celebration and makes no bones about how mixed the record was in the end. The most interesting parts to me were not the battles (which I generally remembered) but the logistics--the political, financial and engineering

Sitting in the waiting area to board the Constitution in Boston, I overheard a man comment that he read Ian Toll's "Six Frigates" and found it extremely insightful as to how the US Navy began and impacted the early development of the United States. Knowing little to nothing about the early Navy, the Barbary Wars, or why the War of 1812 even occurred, let alone what happened during the war, I took this indirect recommendation to heart and purchased it in the harbor's bookstore. While it took a

I had recently finished reading Mr. Toll's two excellent books on the war in the Pacific during World War II, and , and decided to read this book as it was his first. Though Mr. Toll does make some narrative mistakes here that he mostly avoided in his more recent books, I am happy to say that the quality of this book is equal to his others. Covering the Early Republic era of American history (1789-1815), Mr. Toll details the history of the founding of the U.S. Navy, starting with the

In giving Ian Tolls Six Frigates 4 stars I am rounding up. Compared with his excellent Two volumes covering the Naval War in the Pacific, Frigates is cluttered. This is a well-researched book, particularly good at relating the politics that had to happen before military action; it is almost conventional in relating the elsewhere told stories of ship to ship action in the American Revolution through the War of 1812. Ian Toll covers too many topics. The strictly military ones are covered well, but

4.5 stars (I could probably be talked into 5)This book was awesome. It wasn't just a book about 6 ships; it was American history thru that lens. It is exciting and kept me engaged the whole time. Well written and researched. The only deduction (if there is one) is something Toll explains in the beginning. He can't spend the whole book describing nautical terms so he doesn't unless it's really important. So a lot of the time I didn't quite know what he was talking about. I still don't know what a

An awesome book -- and so great to read it right after Hamilton. The battle scenes are intense. Suspenseful and very violent. My favorite battle, however, was when the Constitution stumbled into four British men of war and then spent three windless days evading them and ultimately escaped unharmed. Good, also, to learn more about the War of 1812. Have to visit the Constitution again!