While in actual command of a ship, his skills were not exemplary and a number of vessels under his command were involved in collisions with both moving and stationary objects. interests during the final stages of the War of the Pacific. As commander of the USS Wachusett he was stationed at Callao, Peru, protecting U.S. In 1865, he was promoted to lieutenant commander, and then to commander (1872), and captain (1885). Commissioned as a lieutenant in 1861, Mahan served as an officer on USS Worcester and James Adger and as an instructor at the Naval Academy. He then joined the steam-corvette Pocahontas of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and participated in the Battle of Port Royal in South Carolina early in the American Civil War. Early careerĪfter graduation he was assigned to the frigate Congress from 9 June 1859 until 1861. Naval Academy, where he graduated second in his class in 1859. Against the better judgment of his father, Mahan then entered the U.S. He then studied at Columbia for two years, where he was a member of the Philolexian Society debating club. Mahan attended Saint James School, an Episcopal college preparatory academy in western Maryland. Mahan's middle name honors "the father of West Point", Sylvanus Thayer. Mahan was born on September 27, 1840, at West Point, New York, to Dennis Hart Mahan (a professor at the United States Military Academy) and Mary Helena Okill Mahan (1815–1893), daughter of John Okill and Mary Jay (daughter of Sir James Jay). Origin and limitation of strategic views.
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