biography
pronunciation:
[mahan]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1802–71)
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| biography:
| Military theorist, born in New York City, New York, USA, the father of Alfred Thayer Mahan. He trained at West Point (1824), then went to France to study in an army school, and returned to West Point (1832) where he spent the rest of his career as a professor of civil and military engineering. He was known for his books on fortifications and other aspects of military engineering, but it was his theories, particularly his stress on mobility, boldness, and speed, that heavily influenced senior commanders in both the Mexican War and Civil War. |
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