Военная история / Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power

Издательство: Praeger Publishers
Автор: Howard J. Fuller
Название: Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2008
Количество страниц: 449
ISBN: 978–0–313–34590–6
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 2 мб

This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they failed in other roles associated with naval operations of the Civil War (such as the repulse at Charleston, April 7, 1863). Monitors were 'ironclads'- not fort-killers. Their ultimate success is to be measured not in terms of spearheading attacks on fortified Southern ports but in the quieter, much more profound, strategic deterrence of Lord Palmerston's ministry in London, and the British Royal Navy's potential intervention. The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Foreign intervention--explicitly in the form of British naval power--represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy.