Six Frigates

by Ian W. Toll

  “Perhaps at that moment”: Adams, HUSM, p. 1219.

  James had happened to be passing: Introduction to James, Naval Occurrences of the War of 1812.

  Roosevelt began researching: McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, pp. 204–8, 232–35.

  “finished his naval history”: Owen Wister quoted in Brands, TR: The Last Romantic, p. 117.

  “I have plenty of information”: Letter quoted in ibid.

  “We ask for a great navy”: TR quoted in ibid., pp. 316–17.

  “During the last two days”: TR to Alfred Thayer Mahan, May 12, 1890, in Auchincloss, ed., Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches, pp. 45–46.

  Roosevelt wrote: TR review of Mahan book in Atlantic Monthly (October 1890) in Brands, TR: The Last Romantic, pp. 237–38.

  “by preference Germany”: Brands, TR: The Last Romantic, pp. 322–23.

  Roosevelt cabled: TR, “Orders to the Asiatic Squadron,” to George Dewey, February 25, 1898, in Auchincloss, ed., Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches, p. 141.

  “There is a homely”…and the quotes that follow: Morris, Theodore Rex, pp. 215–16.

  “There is no danger”: Brands, TR: The Last Romantic, p. 466.

  “In a dozen years”: TR to Cecil Spring-Rice, June 16, 1905, in Auchincloss, ed., Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches, p. 391.

  “There was no further difficulty”: Brands, TR: The Last Romantic, p. 612.

  “Did you ever”: Ibid., p. 613.

  “the lessons which should”: TR at the John Paul Jones ceremony, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, April 1907.

  NOTES TO CHRONOLOGY OF LATER EVENTS

  Barron, from Norfolk, writes…and the account that follows: See “Memorandum of Samuel Hambleton,” in MacKenzie, Life of Stephen Decatur, appendix, and Williamson, “The Court of Last Resort,” American History 33(6) (February 1999):34.

  “Oh what an agonizing scene”: Quoted in Long, Ready to Hazard, pp. 227–46.

  “I have racked”: TJ to JA, November 1, 1822, in Cappon, ed., The Adams-Jefferson Letters, pp. 584–85.

  This traditional sign of mourning: Online at “Sea Flags,” http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeohzt4/Seaflags/customs/customs.html.

  “She spoke his talents”: Joshua Humphreys to Secretary of the Navy William Jones, August 20, 1827, Joshua Humphreys Papers, PHS.

  “Had our frigates been”: Joshua Humphreys to Secretary of the Navy William Jones, August 20, 1827, Joshua Humphreys Papers, PHS.

  “Oh, Lord!” TR quoted in Brands, TR: The Last Romantic, p. 321.

  “I earnestly hope”: TR to John Hay, September 21, 1897, in Auchincloss, ed., Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches, p. 119.

  “I have consistently”: TR to William Sturgis Bigelow, March 29, 1898, in ibid., pp. 142–44.

  “a doctrine about which”: TR to Cecil Spring-Rice, July 3, 1901, in ibid., pp. 230–33.

  Details on TR, 1900–03: See Morris, Theodore Rex, pp. 127–28, 205, 207.

  “used as a target”: Martin, A Most Fortunate Ship, p. 298.

  “I think a cruise”: Quoted in Brands, TR: The Last Romantic, p. 609.

  “There was one mistake”: Grey quoted in Massie, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, p. 694.

  “We really must talk”: Quoted in Martin, A Most Fortunate Ship, p. 335.

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