Permanent Fortifications And Sea Coast Defences Report
Permanent Fortifications And Sea Coast Defences Report
United States Congress House Committee On Milit
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Each, therefore, maintains a naval force equal at least to that the enemy is judged to be able to send promptly against it. Omitting any provision for other places scarcely less important, what is the result ? It is, that we maintain within the harbors of, or at the entrance to, these places, chained down to this passive de- fence, a force at least six times as large as that of the enemy. He does not hesitate to leave his port, because it will be protected in his ab- sence by its fortifications..., which also will afford him a sure refuge on his return. He sails about the ocean depredating upon our commerce with his privateers and small cruisers, putting our small places to ransom, and in other ways follow- ing up appropriate duties, all which is accomplished without risk, because our fleet, although of enormous magnitude, must cling to ports which have no other defence than that afforded by their presence. They cannot combine against him nor attack him singly, for they cannot know where he is, and must not, moreover, abandon the objects which they were provided expressly to guard.
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