This is one of Mahan’s best passages on the strategy of naval warfare.Continuing Farragut Captures New Orleans,our selection from Admiral Farragut

He sent for them, not because he wanted to make up his mind, but because it was made up, and he wished at once to impart to them his purposes and

Wait for the forts to fall or of speed by them to destroy the resources upon which they depended?Continuing Farragut Captures New Orleans,our

While these various accessory operations were going on, Admiral Farragut's mind was occupied with the important question of carrying out the object of