Philip Howard Colomb
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Vice-Admiral Philip Howard Colomb. Born in Knockbrex, near Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, he was a Royal Navy officer, historian, critic and inventor. He was the son of General G
Colomb attended the court martial at Portsmouth of Captain Ernest Rice as his friend, following the loss of HMS Sultan. The Graphic, 1889
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power
Philip Howard Colomb
…way of regarding sea-power and its conditions. Colomb did not invent the term "sea-power", as it is of very ancient origin, nor did he employ it until Captain Mahan of the United States Navy had made it a household word with all. But he thoroughly grasped its conditions, and in his great work on Naval Warfare (first…
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Mahan Hall at the United States Naval Academy is named for Mahan.