Audio Books →Iron Dawn The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle That Changed History [Audiobook] (2024)

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English | ASIN: B01MDRFHSW | 2016 | 12 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 356 MB
Author: Richard Snow
Narrator: Grover Gardner
From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow comes the thrilling story of the naval battle that changed the Civil War and the future of all sea power. No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built an iron fort containing 10 heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project when it was already well along, and, in desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, an entirely revolutionary iron warship - at the time, the single most complicated machine ever made. Abraham Lincoln himself was closely involved with the ship's design. Rushed through to completion in just 100 days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret.