American Naval History, 1607-1865For its first eighty five years, the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War of Independence and was mostly trapped in port by the end of the War of 1812. How this meager presence became the major naval power it remains to this day is the subject of American Naval History, 16071865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy. A wide ranging yet concise survey of the U. S. Navy from the colonial