Item #36132 Home Squadron. [To Accompany Bill No. 10.] July 7, 1841. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. Thomas Butler King, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which the subject had been referred, submitted the following Report. Thomas Butler King, U S. House of Representatives.

Home Squadron. [To Accompany Bill No. 10.] July 7, 1841. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. Thomas Butler King, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which the subject had been referred, submitted the following Report.

Washington [D.C.]: Gales & Seaton, printers. 1840. 22 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Lower edges stained else about very good. Sabin 37840. Item #36132

27th Congress, 1st Session. Rep. No. 3. Ho. of Reps. King argues that the advancement in naval steam technology required the creation of a Home squadron "to meet this new and powerful auxiliary in naval warfare, by so changing the construction and employment of our navy as most effectually to protect our commerce and guard our sea-coast against the sudden approach of an enemy employing this new and formidable description of force." The nation he is most concerned about is Great Britain -copies of its contracts for ships are attached to the report. And King, a Congressman from Georgia, knew how to terrify his audience: "There are, it is said, at this time, ten thousand black troops in the British West Indies; and that orders have recently been issued to increase the number to twenty-five thousand. These troops are disciplined and commanded by white officers, and, no doubt, designed to form a most important portion of the force to be employed in any future contest that may arise between Great Britain and the United States."

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