<p>American sea captain George Coggeshall tells of his experiences evading the British navy during the War of 1812 and spending over half a century at sea. </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Japan’s feudal, shut-in history suddenly came to an end when the bluff American commodore dropped anchor in Tokyo Bay</span> </span></p>
<p>In modern war, the true exercise of maritime power depends nearly as much upon the exertions of land and air forces as it does upon naval.” But it is still sea power.</p>
<p><span class="deck">When American colonists sorely needed friends, a Dutch island governor risked political ruin by saluting the rebels’ flag</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> American forces had returned to the Philippines, and the Japanese Navy was about to make its last, desperate attempt to stave off defeat. Suddenly, by miscalculation, nothing stood between its most powerful task force and the American beachhead at Leyte Gulf but a small group of U.S. escort carriers. Could little Taffy 3 hold off Admiral Kurita’s gigantic battleships?</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">A carefree Sunday lay ahead for one of the mess cooks on <em><span class="typestyle">USS Oklahoma</span></em>. His pockets jingled, and a pretty girl awaited him for a picnic on a warm, white beach. Minutes later he lay entombed at the bottom of Pearl Harbor </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Outgunned by the Nazi raider, the</span> Stephen Hopkins <span class="typestyle"> could have struck her colors. Instead she elected to fight</span> </span></p>
<p>When the first African-Americans to crew a U.S. warship sailed into the war-tossed North Atlantic, they couldn't have known it would take 50 years to gain honor in their own country.</p>
