Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Mahan, Alfred Thayer( 1840–1914),graduated from Annapolis (1859), served in the Civil War, later lectured on naval history and tactics at the Newport War College and was its president (1886–89). After retirement from the navy (1896), he was made a rear admiral. His lectures, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) and The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (2 vols., 1892), propounding new views of naval significance in political history, greatly influenced the policies of Germany, England, Japan, and the U.S. His many other books include lives of Nelson and Farragut, works on naval strategy, American naval histories, and a memoir, From Sail to Steam (1907).
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