Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances of 3,500 or 4,000 miles — or between 7,000 and 8,000, going and coming — an impediment to sustained maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive. Expansion Under New World-conditions - Página 197por Josiah Strong - 1900 - 302 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1897 - 1272 páginas
...most prominent has been Captain Mahan, who says : " Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances...7,000 and 8,000 going and coming — an impediment to sustaining maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive." The New York "Times" well replies that, from... | |
| James Abram Garfield - 1881 - 354 páginas
...exclude from all. There is, however, but the one. Shut out from the Sandwich. Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances...— an impediment to sustained maritime operations well nigh prohibitive. It is rarely that so important a factor in. the attack or defence of a coast... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1894 - 180 páginas
...exclude from all. There is, however, but the one. Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances...— an impediment to sustained maritime operations well nigh prohibitive. The coal mines of British Columbia constitute, of course, a qualification to... | |
| 1897 - 1084 páginas
...most prominent has been Captain Mahan, who says: "Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, v { ʖ H ڇ Kq ϶; E Y4 oX _ FX q1 /] i Q ...:o ``K Q &Nͨ\5nZ y ^ 3$O@ =A 2 W 8 G sustaining maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive." The New York "Times" well replies that, from... | |
| Sons of the American Revolution. Hawaii society - 1897 - 10 páginas
...back for supplies of fuel to distances of 3,600 or 4,000 miles— or between 7,000 and 8,000 miles going and coming, — an impediment to sustained maritime...rarely that so important a factor in the attack or defence of a coast line — of a sea frontier — is concentrated in a single position, and this circumstance... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 340 páginas
...exclude from all. There is, however, but the one. Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances of thirty-five hundred or four thousand miles, — or between seven thousand and eight thousand, going... | |
| Sons of the American Revolution. Hawaii society - 1897 - 12 páginas
...influence." * * * " Shut out from the Hawaiian Islands as a coaling base," continues Captain Mahan, "an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances of 3,600 or 4,000 miles—or between 7,000 and 8,000 miles going and coming,—an impediment to sustained... | |
| CAPTAIN A. T. MAHAN, D.C.L., LL,D, - 1897 - 328 páginas
...exclude from all. There is, however, but the one. Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances of thirty-five hundred or four thousand miles, — or between seven thousand and eight thousand, going... | |
| 1898 - 544 páginas
...our time-honored policy. " Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base," declares our author, " an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances...3,500 or 4,000 miles — or between 7,000 and 8,000 coming and going — an impediment to sustained maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive;" and few... | |
| 1898 - 646 páginas
...our time-honored policy. " Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base," declares our author, "an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances...3,500 or 4,000 miles — or between 7,000 and 8,000 coming and going — an impediment to sustained maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive;" and few... | |
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