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Definition of Alfred thayer mahan
1. Noun. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
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Literary usage of Alfred thayer mahan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"alfred thayer mahan (1840-) IHE power of genius to discover new relations between
familiar facts is strikingly exemplified in Captain alfred thayer mahan's ..."
2. American History Told by Contemporaries by Albert Bushnell Hart (1901)
"The Navy in the Spanish War (1898) BY CAPTAIN alfred thayer mahan M alian is a
retired naval officer. ..."
3. Men of Mark in America: Ideals of American Life Told in Biographies of edited by Merrill Edwards Gates (1906)
"... alfred thayer mahan MAHAN, ALFRED THAYER, captain in the United State navy,
expert naval strategist and scholar, author of a brilliant series of books ..."
4. Strategic Transformation and Naval Power in the 21st Century by Pelham G. Boyer, Robert S. Wood (1998)
"The few who peered further into the history of American strategic thought discovered
that only alfred thayer mahan, among all American military ..."
5. The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy by Caroline Ticknor, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton (1901)
"alfred thayer mahan, a distinguished American naval officer and writer on naval
history, born at West Point, NY, Sept. 27, 1840. He served in the Civil War; ..."