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  <titleInfo>
    <title>A. T. Mahan papers, 1861-1913</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1840-1914</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <originInfo>
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  <abstract>Four letters (1911-1913) by Mahan to Carter H. Fitz-Hugh concerning U.S. defense policy, the Panama Canal, and Germany's territorial conditions; letter by Mahan (1861 October 10) to C. S. Newcome from the sloop Pocahontas; photocopy of a report (1906) by Mahan on the Naval War Board of 1898 with attachments that include copies of letters to and from Adm. George Dewey and Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte; and photocopies of excerpts from two published works on Mahan referring to the report.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Naval officer and author.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1921</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dewey, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1917</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fitz-Hugh, Carter H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Newcome, C. S</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Naval War Board of 1898 (U.S.)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Pocahontas (Screw sloop)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy</namePart>
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    <topic>Officers</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Canals</topic>
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama Canal (Panama)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Germany</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Military policy</topic>
  </subject>
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    <occupation>Authors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Naval officers</occupation>
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