169 Reform and Revitalization: The Endicott and Taft Eras of Harbor Defense

In this episode we take a look at Harbor Defense in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of the most
consistent missions of the US Army since the founding of the
republic was defending the nation's harbors. The Civil War
demonstrated that the granite of bricks of yore were outclassed
by modern weapons. After a period of stagnation in the years
after the Civil War, in 1886 Secretary of War Endicott released a
plan for modern fortifications. While it took more than a decade
to appropriate funding, these fortifications would defend the
nation's harbors well into the twentieth century.


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