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Naval Academy
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Published
09/03/10
Advocates struggled for more than 40 years to establish the U.S. Naval Academy and even then, when Navy Secretary George Bancroft finally succeeded in 1845, they had to sneak the idea past Congress and create the school on the sly, according to a new book. 
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"The Long Road to Annapolis: The Founding of the Naval Academy and the Emerging American Republic," by William P. Leeman, is a scholarly examination of why Americans opposed the idea of a school for naval officers. Along the way, the book provides insights into the early national period, which ran roughly from the end of the Revolution in 1783 to the Mexican War in...
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