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- catalog abstract ""The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s - "millions for defense, not a cent for tribute." Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and by France's galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, and as they teetered toward open war, were disturbed by their country's lack of warships. Provoked to action, private U.S. citizens decided to help build a navy. Merchants from Newburyport, Massachusetts, took the lead by opening a subscription to fund a 20-gun warship to be built in ninety days, and they persuaded Congress to pass a statute that gave them government "stock" bearing 6 percent interest in exchange for their money."--Jacket. "Their example set off a chain reaction down the coast. More than a thousand subscribers in ten port towns pledged money and began to build nine warships with little government oversight."--BOOK JACKET. "This book is the first to explore in depth the subject of subscribing for warships. Frederick Leiner explains how the idea materialized, who the people were who subscribed and built the ships, how the ships were built, and what contributions these ships made to the quasi-war against France."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11591537.
- catalog coverage "United States History 1797-1801.".
- catalog coverage "United States History, Naval 18th century.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s - "millions for defense, not a cent for tribute." Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and by France's galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, and as they teetered toward open war, were disturbed by their country's lack of warships. Provoked to action, private U.S. citizens decided to help build a navy. Merchants from Newburyport, Massachusetts, took the lead by opening a subscription to fund a 20-gun warship to be built in ninety days, and they persuaded Congress to pass a statute that gave them government "stock" bearing 6 percent interest in exchange for their money."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Their example set off a chain reaction down the coast. More than a thousand subscribers in ten port towns pledged money and began to build nine warships with little government oversight."--BOOK JACKET. "This book is the first to explore in depth the subject of subscribing for warships. Frederick Leiner explains how the idea materialized, who the people were who subscribed and built the ships, how the ships were built, and what contributions these ships made to the quasi-war against France."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1 On the Verge of War 5 -- 2 "A Navy Spring Up Like the Gourd of Jonah" 20 -- 3 The Newburyport Example 28 -- 4 The Philadelphia's Story 53 -- 5 Baltimore's "Charming Little Ships" 72 -- 6 The Boston and the Perils of Taking Prizes 93 -- 7 Politics of Procurement, Politics of Preferment: The George Washington and the Richmond 122 -- 8 Squandered Ship: The Frigate New York 140 -- 9 Charleston's "Two-Sided" Frigate 148 -- 10 The Essex in the East Indies 158.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 262 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Millions for defense.".
- catalog identifier "155750508X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Millions for defense.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
- catalog relation "Millions for defense.".
- catalog spatial "United States History 1797-1801.".
- catalog spatial "United States History, Naval 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "359/.00973/09033 21".
- catalog subject "United States. Navy History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "VA56 .L45 2000".
- catalog subject "Warships United States History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 On the Verge of War 5 -- 2 "A Navy Spring Up Like the Gourd of Jonah" 20 -- 3 The Newburyport Example 28 -- 4 The Philadelphia's Story 53 -- 5 Baltimore's "Charming Little Ships" 72 -- 6 The Boston and the Perils of Taking Prizes 93 -- 7 Politics of Procurement, Politics of Preferment: The George Washington and the Richmond 122 -- 8 Squandered Ship: The Frigate New York 140 -- 9 Charleston's "Two-Sided" Frigate 148 -- 10 The Essex in the East Indies 158.".
- catalog title "Millions for defense : the subscription warships of 1798 / Frederick C. Leiner.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Naval history. fast".
- catalog type "text".