- A scholarly yet highly readable account of a subject area barely considered in previous US naval histories
- Meticulously researched, uncovering material from the US National Archives which will be entirely new to virtually every reader
- Offers a wide selection of rare, previously unpublished images collected from various naval archives, museums, and other repositories
- An important work for those interested in the history of the US Navy, the Royal Navy, naval field artillery, and the reach of US power and influence around the globe from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century
The United States put armed naval landing parties ashore in numerous countries across the world in the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century.
Specially designed light field guns carried aboard gunboats and larger warships sometimes supported the bluejackets and marines, usually when larger parties more likely to face sharp actions went ashore.
This book chronicles the history and characteristics of every model of US Navy landing gun produced between 1850 and 1942, offering a thorough and scholarly account of ordnance development in an age of swashbuckling military adventure.
