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Great White Fleet Map
c 1909
The red lines on this world map track the cruise of the Great White Fleet from its December 1907 departure from Hampton Roads, VA until its triumphant return in February 1909. This historic 'round-the-world cruise demonstrated to friend and foe alike that a powerful American battlefleet based on the East Coast could reach the farthest corner of Asia and the Pacific, even before the construction of the Panama Canal. |