Typhoon Bearing

This episode covers the United States as it emerges as a great power on the world stage. We took colonies from Spain and under young President Theodore Roosevelt the Navy expands to match out new Great Power status. 

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Between the Spanish American War and WWI the Great White Fleet circumnavigates the globe in a display of naval power, the United States builds the Panama Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enforces our Monroe Doctrine more forcefully with the Roosevelt Corollary and helps put down the Boxer Rebellion in China.

This episode also features a good overview of THE GREATEST BATTLESHIP BATTLE in world history. The Battle of Jutland does not involve any Americans, but it is just cool enough to be featured anyway. The Marine's role in WWI is also covered, as is the emergence of air power for the first time. 

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At the end of the Civil War the United States was (very briefly) a world-class naval power. But in the midst of a worldwide naval revolution, the United States failed to invest in this technological change after the war ended and quickly fell behind as the country focused on westward expansion.  In the nick of time, Congress invested in the dilapidated United States Navy and began the process of creating a force to again be respected. In this episode, the United States will emerge as a world power and strip Spain of the last vestiges of empire in lopsided Spanish American War. 

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Civil War was a titanic conflict. The Navy began the Civil War with only 42 ships in active service and orders to blockade 3,500 miles of coastline and seize control of the South’s rivers. Over then next four years the Union navy would swell to almost 700 warships, lead the world technologically, and play a vital part in reuniting the nation in the bloodiest war the United States has ever fought. The war can also be thought of as the first modern war, a total war where technology, industry, and joint operations played decisive roles and marked a clear transition from the Napoleonic era of horse and infantry line tactic warfare, into the era of screaming shells, trenches, and the scorched earth of the 20th century.

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So long as the Sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian dare come to Japan; and, let all know that the King of Spain himself, or his Christian’s God…if he violates this command shall pay with his head. -Shogun’s Edict of 1638

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For more than two centuries before Perry arrived Japan was a closed land to Westerners. But a confluence of money and world politics led President Fillmore to send Mexican-American War veteran Matthew Perry to Japan with instructions to open the country to American commerce and sailors. Perry got the job done and ushered in the Meiji Restoration, an era in Japanese history where the country transformed itself at breakneck pace from technological backwater to great power. The ripple effects of this opening were felt most strongly in 1941 when a rising Japan contested the United States Navy for control of the Pacific, and continues to be felt today as our ally in the United States' emerging contest with China.

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This week's episode is about the Navy’s role in the Mexican American-War before circling back to talk about a couple piracy smack-downs, trade, and the Navy’s role as the game-changing naval revolution that the steam engines proved to be during this period. 

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Featuring bloody battles, heroic victories, and a few embarrassing defeats!

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After fighting the Quasi-War with France over the rights of American sailors and merchants at sea, we were now facing the same issues with the British. This episode traces the events leading up to the War of 1812, sometimes referred to as the Second War of Independence, against the Royal Navy which was in its wartime 1,000-ship prime and tells the story of how we "won" (ok, tied...or actually just didn't completely lose) this Second War for Independence thanks to the United States Navy. 

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Right as we gain our independence, the Napoleonic Wars break out in Europe leading to a brief, undeclared war against our former ally France. Following the Quasi-War, you'll hear about US Navy actions in the Barbary Wars against the pirate states of North Africa featuring bribery, coups, battles, and the story of what legendary British Admiral Nelson called “the most bold and daring act of the age.”

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This is the first episode of an overview of US Naval History. Each episode will cover an era of naval history including some of the key American battles. 

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This episode will begin at the beginning, with the United States Navy before there even was a United States of America, back when we were a group of 13 colonies using a motley alliance of state navies, the Continental Navy, privateers and the navies of our European allies to win our independence and defeat the globe-spanning, indisputably  greatest naval power on earth at the time, the Royal Navy.

You will hear about John Paul Jones' raid on the English coast and his battle against the HMS Serapis, where he fought a British warship which outclassed his in every way, except for the one that mattered in the end, the will of her captain to fight. 

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