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4th ISS, 1976

Series

Identifier: RG-22

Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

This collection consists of correspondence, reports, publications, photographs, audio cassettes, digital media (floppy disks and compact discs, etc.), and digital files regarding the International Seapower Symposium. These records document the organization and proceedings of each symposium and include speeches, presentations, schedules, programs, reports, and other materials used and referenced at each symposia. The extent of records for each symposium varies.

Records from 1969-1976 contain folders for each country that had an officer attending the symposium. Within these folders are correspondence, biographical and career information, and their travel arrangements. Also found within this record group are speeches and reports from symposia were established due to the influence of the International Seapower Symposium. These include the 1972 Regional Seapower Symposium, hosted biannually in Venice for naval leaders from Mediterranean and Black Sea countries to discuss common challenges, and the 1973 Hague Symposium, held annually to focus on post-conflict transitions and international justice.

Dates: 1976

Found in: Naval War College Archives / International Seapower Symposium records

4th Military Operations and Law Symposium, 1985

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Identifier: MSC-094

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, subject files and writings of Charles H. Stockton Chairholder in International Law, 1984–1985.

Dates: 1985

Found in: Naval War College Archives / W. Hays Parks papers

4th Naval District Naval Officers Reserve Seminar, 1952

File — Box: 70, Folder: 8

Identifier: RG-03- File P11

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and memoranda regarding College administration, faculty and staff, curriculum, facilities, finances and organization, visitors, lectures, conferences and events.

The majority of this collection is filed using Navy file numbers. For more information about this filing system, please refer to the Navy Filing Manuals and Bureau of Ordnance File Numbers in the External Documents section of this finding aid.

Dates: 1952

Found in: Naval War College Archives / Central Office records

4th Naval District Naval Reserve Officers' Seminar, 1953

File — Box: 81, Folder: 5

Identifier: RG-03- File P11

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and memoranda regarding College administration, faculty and staff, curriculum, facilities, finances and organization, visitors, lectures, conferences and events.

The majority of this collection is filed using Navy file numbers. For more information about this filing system, please refer to the Navy Filing Manuals and Bureau of Ordnance File Numbers in the External Documents section of this finding aid.

Dates: 1953

Found in: Naval War College Archives / Central Office records

4th of July oration and other programs, memorabilia, 1808

File — Box: 12, Folder: 58

Identifier: MSC-103- Series III

Content Description From the Collection: Correspondence, boyhood and early family letters sent and received during his naval career, 1899–1937; Correspondence of his wife, Julia Averill Belknap, 1897–1907, and reminiscences of a year in China, Japan and the Philippines, 1900–1901; Bound volume of RADM Belknap’s published articles; Lecture on Blue Orange Situation, 1915; War Plans, Their Form and Substance, 1913; NWC Long Course papers, 1913–1914; Principle and Practice of Tactics…;, Strategy, Principles and Practice...; Logistics, its influence on strategy ... suggestions for improving the War College Course; German newspaper with WWI news, 1914–1915; Pamphlets on WWI and participants and causes, 1914–1915, in English, German and French. Miscellany, including photographs, programs and imprints; Correspondence, family letters sent and received, 1866–1903, of RADM George E. Belknap; Correspondence of his wife, Frances G. Prescott Belknap, 1864–1912; Miscellany, including photographs, glass slides and clippings; Correspondence, court and military papers, speeches, poems and essays of George Washington Prescott, 1775–1816; Correspondence of George Washington Prescott II, 1830–1882, father of Frances G. Belknap; Correspondence of Prescott Belknap to his mother, Frances G. Belknap, and his aunt, Frances Lear Prescott, 1868–1912; Miscellaneous correspondence of other family members. Scope and Contents The collection consists of thirteen boxes of personal papers of both...

Dates: 1808

Found in: Naval War College Archives / Belknap family papers / Series III. George Washington Prescott papers

4th version, various chapters, undated

File — Box: 5, Folder: 16

Identifier: MSC-105

Content Description From the Collection:

Research source materials, notes, correspondence, lectures, critiques, interviews, commentary by ADM H. Kent Hewitt and others, drafts of chapters and final draft for an unpublished book entitled A History of Amphibious Warfare: From the Age of Sail to Inchon, 1957–1963.

Dates: undated

Found in: Naval War College Archives / Richard West research

5 Report on the Survey of Philippine Waters, ca-1900, circa 1900

File — Box: 3, Folder: 5

Identifier: MSC-263- Series IV

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of six and one-half boxes that document Taussig’s naval career from 1865 to 1919. The papers are divided into seven series: Naval Orders, Correspondence, Journals, Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Photographs, and Miscellany.Series I, Naval Orders, consists of orders dating from October 1, 1875 to November 17, 1909. They are arranged chronologically and include letters of assignment and detachment.Series II, Correspondence, letters, both sent and received, date from 1865 to 1919. This series is arranged chronologically. Correspondence received, 1886–1909, includes his management of the Navy’s exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893, letters of congratulations, naval assignments, disciplinary issues, matters of pay and compensation, and invitations. Letters sent, 1865–1919, include a letter to CDR Stephen B. Luce regarding Taussig’s lateness at recitation, U.S. Naval Academy, October 14, 1865, the taking of Wake Island in 1899, memorandum and letters regarding the USS Bennington and his detachment from the ship, his cruise in USS Yorktown, the selection process, his recommendations regarding alterations to destroyers, his command of the naval unit at Columbia University, 1918–1919, and correspondence regarding his son Paul’s application to the U.S. Naval Academy, 1892–1893. The series contains Paul’s letters to his parents from school in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Naval Academy, 1892–1894, as...

Dates: circa 1900

Found in: Naval War College Archives / Edward D. Taussig papers / Series IV. Reports

5th ISS, 1979

Series

Identifier: RG-22

Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

This collection consists of correspondence, reports, publications, photographs, audio cassettes, digital media (floppy disks and compact discs, etc.), and digital files regarding the International Seapower Symposium. These records document the organization and proceedings of each symposium and include speeches, presentations, schedules, programs, reports, and other materials used and referenced at each symposia. The extent of records for each symposium varies.

Records from 1969-1976 contain folders for each country that had an officer attending the symposium. Within these folders are correspondence, biographical and career information, and their travel arrangements. Also found within this record group are speeches and reports from symposia were established due to the influence of the International Seapower Symposium. These include the 1972 Regional Seapower Symposium, hosted biannually in Venice for naval leaders from Mediterranean and Black Sea countries to discuss common challenges, and the 1973 Hague Symposium, held annually to focus on post-conflict transitions and international justice.

Dates: 1979

Found in: Naval War College Archives / International Seapower Symposium records