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Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 18400927 - 19141201

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Abstract of Lectures on Strategy, by Alfred T. Mahan

 Digital Record
Identifier: RG15_01_30_01
Dates: 1899

Alfred T. Mahan letter to Washington I. Chambers, 1892 Jul 27

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 025
Scope and Contents

Letter from Alfred T. Mahan, Newport, RI, July 27, 1892, to Lieutenant Washington I. Chambers, USN, regarding the concept of education at the Naval War College.

Dates: 1892 Jul 27

Alfred T. Mahan letter to Washington I. Chambers

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSC364_04_04_MSI025
Dates: 1892 Jul 27

Collection of Stephen B. Luce and Alfred T. Mahan letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 410000000563], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSC-379
Abstract

This collection includes five letters from Stephen B. Luce, founder of the U.S. Naval War College, and one letter from Alfred T. Mahan, esteemed naval officer and historian.

Dates: 1862-1863, 1894

Early records of the U.S. Naval War College

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-01
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, lists, contracts, inventories, military and naval orders, and plans regarding the early administration and curriculum of the Naval War College, new building construction, and items relating to the establishment of a naval coaling station in Narraganset Bay. Also included are journals and letterpress copybooks kept by past NWC presidents Charles Stockton and French Chadwick.

Dates: 1883-1919; Majority of material found within 1895-1911

Journal of daily NWC activities

 Digital Record
Identifier: RG01_05_04_01
Dates: 1892 Jul 22-1895 Feb 19

Journal of daily NWC activities, 1892 Jul 22-1895 Feb 19

 File — Box 5: [Barcode: TRF107626564], Folder: 4
Identifier: RG-01
Scope and Contents

Journal detailing the daily operations of the Naval War College starting on 1892 Jul 22 when Captain A. T. Mahan assumed command as its President through 1895 Feb 19. This volume includes notes about the daily weather conditions, events taking place each day, and the time when buildings were closed each day.

Dates: 1892 Jul 22-1895 Feb 19

Letter from Stephen B. Luce to William E. Chandler about nominations for officers as instructors, 1884 Oct 28

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: TRF107626568], Folder: 2
Identifier: RG-01
Scope and Contents

Letter from Commodore Stephen B. Luce to William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy listing his nominations for officers as instructors and their disciplines at the Naval War College which included:

  • Commander A. T. Mahan, Naval branch, Department of Science and Art of War
  • An officer "learned in military science," Military branch, Department of Science and Art of War
  • Professor J. Russell Soley, International Law
  • Paymaster R. W. Allen, Naval Law and Administration of Justice
  • Lieutenant S. W. Very, Navigation

Dates: 1884 Oct 28

Mahan, Alfred T.: Abstract of his Lectures - Strategy of the Caribbean and Napoleon's Campaign of 1796, 1896

 File — Box 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: RG-15
Scope and Contents

Abstract of six lectures on strategy that were given by Captain A. T. Mahan at the Naval War College. Over some time, Mahan delivered a course of lectures upon strategy that clearly and forcibly set forth the great truths of the art of war. The whole course was divided into two series, the first being, "The Strategic Features of the Caribbean" and the second series was devoted to "Some Considerations of the Art of War, Naval and Land, with Illustrations from Bonaparte's Italian Campaign of 1796-1797."

It is not apparent who compiled this abstract.

Dates: 1896