Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914
Dates
- Existence: 18400927 - 19141201
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook, NWC lecture notes and ordnance testing, 1892 Sept-1893 Sep 21
Notebook belonging to Newton A. McCully containing lectures from his time as an NWC student and recordings of testing at the Naval Ordnance Proving Ground at Indian Head, Maryland.
Pages 1-33 consist of McCully’s notes from NWC lectures, 1892 Sep-Oct, includes those by A.T. Mahan and C.H. Stockton and cover a wide range of topics such as naval strategy, tactics, gunnery, naval history, electricity, steam power, and hygiene.
Pages 34 to the end of the volume are "memorandum of work done at the Naval Ordnance Proving Ground at Indian Head Md, beginning Nov 1 1892-Sep 21, 1893.
Research notes: Creighton's Q. Elizabeth, Blok, Table of Dates, Hanse Towns, 1901
Mahan's handwritten notes on: Hilaire Belloc, Living Age, 1900 Dec 15; Creighton, Queen Elizabeth, Bloc III; List of dates, English and French, 1483-1610; Hanse Towns.
Research notes: Data for naval strategy lectures, circa 1907-1914
Mahan's notes on: War at sea, strategy and tactics: the doctrine, by Gabriel Darrieus; "Corbett and Mahan;" A Synthesis of Naval Strategy, 1689-1697; Corbett's Seven Years War; Corbett's England in the Mediterranean; Daveluy; "Diplomatic Relations Preceding 7 Years War condensed from Corbett; Notes from newspapers with clippings.
Research notes: Data, War of 1812, 1903
Mahan's handwritten research notes on: Niles Register, Nov-Dec 1814; Armstrong War of 1812; Winfield Scott; Report on Canadian Archives; American State Papers, Commerce and Navigation; "Diary of Dr. Usher Parsons of the Lawrences," Rhode Island Historical Society Collection.
Research notes: Data, War of 1812, 1903
Includes a note on form and correlation; Letters to Congress, Vol. 2, 1813-1815; Captain's Letters, 1807-1814.
Research notes: Debates on Constitution, 1901 Nov
Mahan's handwritten notes on: Documents Illustrative of American History; Bigelow's Franklin; Egerton, British Colonial Policy; Eliot, Debates on Constitution.
Research notes: Green, Creighton, Monson, Ranke, Bacon, and Gardiner, 1900-1901
Mahan's handwritten notes on: Green, Town Life; Monson; Ranke; Hunter; Bacon, Henry VII; Gardiner, Henry VII; Creighton, Wolsey.
Research notes: Stubbs' lectures, 1901
Mahan's handwritten notes on Stubbs: Lectures; Finlay's Greece, Vols. 1-V; Smith's Wealth of Nations, Vol. II; Summary of Neapolitan Affairs, 1494-1504; Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, Vol. III.
Research notes: Stubbs, Rodney, 1901
Mahan's handwritted notes on: Stubbs, Vol. I; Notes on Rodney, with notes on tactics from other sources; Hawke; Ranke on Seven Years War and character of English Empire; Howe; Note: "Current Memda. For Proposed Book, Sept. 16, 1913;" Fiske, Old Virginia and Neighbors, Vol. I-III.
Research notes: Stubbs, Social England, Roger's, 1901
Mahan's handwritten notes on: Stubbs, Vols. I-III; Social England, Vol. II; Roger's History of Agriculture; Cunningham.