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Mahan, Alfred Thayer
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pronunciation:
[mahan]
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| Naval officer and writer, born in West Point, New York, USA. He served in the Civil War and carried out 20 years of routine sea duty before becoming a lecturer at the new Naval War College (1885). He twice served as the College's president (1886–9, 1892–3), and published numerous influential books, such as The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660–1783 (1890). He was publicly honoured by the British government, and thoroughly studied by German naval officers. Elected president of the American Historical Association in 1902, he became a rear-admiral on the retired list in 1906. |
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