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Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
James L. Nelson
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| #307268 in Books | 2005-03-29 | 2005-03-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.90 x5.31l,.74 | File type: PDF | 400 pages||14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| The Monitor & the Merrimack ignite the imagination|By Tom Knapp|James L. Nelson brings their famous conflict to the fore in Reign of Iron, a historical study of the events leading up to and proceeding after the battle. The book begins with the Merrimack, newly recommissioned Virginia, steaming into its first battle and decimating the Union navy's proud wooden ships blockading|From Publishers Weekly|The Monitor-Merrimack showdown may be one of the Civil War’s most overhyped chestnuts: the two ships were by no means the first ironclads, and their long awaited confrontation proved an anticlimactic draw, their cannon fire clanging
At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the Monitor and the Merrimack -- after a four-hour battle, ended the three-thousand-year tradition of wooden men-of-war and ushered in "the reign of iron."
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