 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
 | 1922 - 768 páginas
...all. There is, however, but the one. Shut out from the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances...factor in the attack or defense of a coastline — of a sea frontier — is concentrated in a single position, and the circumstance renders it doubly imperative... | |
 | 1924 - 674 páginas
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 | 1908 - 974 páginas
...exclude them 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 3.500 or 4,000 miles — or between 7,000 and 8,000 going and coming — an impediment to sustained... | |
 | Svetlana Boym - 2003 - 870 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... | |
 | Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds - 2008 - 345 páginas
...of their strategic value as a coaling station: '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 miles'. 44 Following the Japanese naval victory over China in 1895, Mahan published... | |
 | 1848 - 490 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...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 the circumstance... | |
 | 1901 - 1054 páginas
...exclude from all. There is, however, but the one. Shut out from the Sandwich Islands its a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances...sustained maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive. * * * ft israrely that so important afactorin the attack or defence of a coast line— of a sea frontier... | |
 | 1896 - 580 páginas
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