lecture notes

Notebook belonging to Newton A. McCully containing lectures from his time as an NWC student and recordings of testing at the Naval Ordnance Proving Ground at Indian Head, Maryland.

Pages 1-33 consist of McCully’s notes from NWC lectures, 1892 Sep-Oct, includes those by A.T. Mahan and C.H. Stockton and cover a wide range of topics such as naval strategy, tactics, gunnery, naval history, electricity, steam power, and hygiene.

Pages 34 to the end of the volume are "memorandum of work done at the Naval Ordnance Proving Ground at Indian Head Md, beginning Nov 1 1892-Sep 21, 1893.

Mahan's handwritten notes on: Hilaire Belloc, Living Age, 1900 Dec 15; Creighton, Queen Elizabeth, Bloc III; List of dates, English and French, 1483-1610; Hanse Towns.

Mahan's notes on: War at sea, strategy and tactics: the doctrine, by Gabriel Darrieus; "Corbett and Mahan;" A Synthesis of Naval Strategy, 1689-1697; Corbett's Seven Years War; Corbett's England in the Mediterranean; Daveluy; "Diplomatic Relations Preceding 7 Years War condensed from Corbett; Notes from newspapers with clippings.

Mahan's handwritten research notes on: Niles Register, Nov-Dec 1814; Armstrong War of 1812; Winfield Scott; Report on Canadian Archives; American State Papers, Commerce and Navigation; "Diary of Dr. Usher Parsons of the Lawrences," Rhode Island Historical Society Collection.

Includes a note on form and correlation; Letters to Congress, Vol. 2, 1813-1815; Captain's Letters, 1807-1814.

Mahan's handwritten notes on: Documents Illustrative of American History; Bigelow's Franklin; Egerton, British Colonial Policy; Eliot, Debates on Constitution.

Mahan's handwritten notes on: Green, Town Life; Monson; Ranke; Hunter; Bacon, Henry VII; Gardiner, Henry VII; Creighton, Wolsey.