* 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( b. 1840 )

The key leader was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ), who greatly expanded the size and quality of the Navy, while adopting the sea power theories of American strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan.

He created popular magazines about the navy, arranged for Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which argued the importance of naval forces, to be translated into German and serialised in newspapers, arranged rallies in support and invited politicians and industrialists to naval reviews.

However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to ' designate the area between Arabia and India '.

* 1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( d. 1914 )

* Davis, Richard Harding, and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

One fraction led by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz were avid followers of the teachings of the American historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and believed in building a “ balanced fleet ” centred around the battleship that would, if war came, seek out and win a decisive battle of annihilation ( Entscheidungsschlacht ) against the Royal Navy.

* Mahan, Alfred Thayer ( 1906 ).

Plan of the fleet deployment during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 </ br > by Alfred Thayer Mahan During the night came the sounds that the English fleet had been waiting to hear – the signal guns of the Spanish ships in the fog.

At a time when industrialisation was reaping major advances in naval technology, one American strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, almost single-handedly brought the field of naval strategy up to date.

* Alfred Thayer Mahan, U. S. Rear Admiral, geopolitician and historian

The Navy was modernized in the 1880s, and by the 1890s had adopted the naval power strategy of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan -- as indeed did every major navy.

Influenced by the American geostrategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, Ratzel wrote of aspirations for German naval reach, agreeing that sea power was self-sustaining, as the profit from trade would pay for the merchant marine, unlike land power.

Alfred Thayer Mahan, a frequent commentator on world naval strategic and diplomatic affairs, believed that national greatness was inextricably associated with the sea, with its commercial usage in peace and its control in war.

Mackinder's doctrine of geopolitics involved concepts diametrically opposed to the notion of Alfred Thayer Mahan about the significance of navies ( he coined the term sea power ) in world conflict.

Ostensibly based upon the geopolitical theory of American naval officer Alfred Thayer Mahan, and British geographer Halford J. Mackinder, German geopolitik adds older German ideas.

* Davis, Richard Harding, and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

The United States possessed more naval power and, more significantly, Alfred Thayer Mahan's theories were needed to secure the growing influence of the United States in Latin America.

Alfred Thayer Mahan ( September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914 ) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called " the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.

Alfred Thayer Mahan was born in West Point, New York, to Dennis Hart Mahan ( a professor at the United States Military Academy ) and Mary Helena Mahan.

Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan ( 3 vol 1975 ) v. 1.

* Mahan, Alfred Thayer.

* The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, volume 1, by Alfred Bates.

In his emphasis on sea power, Thucydides resembles the modern naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, whose influential work The Influence of Sea Power upon History helped set in motion the naval arms race prior to World War I.

The power of the French fleet was broken, and would not recover before the war was over ; in the words of Alfred Thayer Mahan ( The Influence of Sea Power upon History ), " The battle of 20 November 1759 was the Trafalgar of this war, and [...] the English fleets were now free to act against the colonies of France, and later of Spain, on a grander scale than ever before ".

He graduated just weeks after the publication of the first and last chapters of Alfred Thayer Mahan's classic study, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 in its Japanese translation in July 1890.

* Alfred W. Simon, " Quantitative Theory of the Influence Electrostatic Generator ".

Then came publication of naval theorist Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan ’ s landmark study The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, which in part prompted a modernization of the U. S. fleet and brought some of the first calls for an organized naval reserve to help man these more advanced ships.

890 by Wulfstan of Hedeby, an Anglo-Saxon sailor, travelling on the south coast of the Baltic Sea at the behest of King Alfred the Great of England.

* " C Q D " by Alfred M. Caddell — from Radio Broadcast, April 1924, pages 449 – 455 ; described as " The Story of the First Sea Rescue by Radio ".

* Mahan, Alfred Thayer., Reflections, Historic and Other, Suggested by the Battle of the Japan Sea.

* Alfred Wegner institute ( AWI ) Publications, Berichte zur Polar-und Meeresforschung ( Reports on polar and marine research )-free, downloadable research reports on the biology, geology, oceanography, hydrology, paleontology, paleoclimatology, fauna, flora, soils, cryology, and so forth of the Lena Delta, Laptev Sea, and other parts of the Arctic Circle.

In this way the tale links first to Saxon England of Alfred the Great, then to the Lombard Alboin of St. Benedict's time, the Baltic Sea in Old Norse days, Ireland at the time of the Tuatha Dé's coming ( 600 years after the Flood ), prehistoric North in the Ice Age, a ' Galdor story ' of Third Age Middle-earth, and finally the Fall of Gil-galad, before recounting the prime legend of the Downfall of Númenor / Atlantis and the Bending of the World.

* Alfred Wegner institute ( AWI ) Publications, Berichte zur Polar-und Meeresforschung ( Reports on polar and marine research )-free, downloadable research reports on the biology, geology, oceanography, hydrology, paleontology, paleoclimatology, fauna, flora, soils, cryology, and so forth of the New Siberian Islands, Laptev Sea, and other parts of the Arctic Circle.

In 1847, whilst still in Italy, Watts entered a new competition for the Houses of Parliament with his image Alfred Inciting the Saxons to Prevent the Landing of the Danes by Encountering them at Sea, on a patriotic subject but using Phidean inspiration.

Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield, GCB, OM, KCMG, CVO, PC ( 27 September 1873 – 15 November 1967 ) was a Royal Navy officer and held the position of First Sea Lord from 1933 to 1939.

His parents were married in Edinburgh, Scotland while Alfred was on a short leave from patrols in the North Sea.

Among the programs in which Merrill appeared are: The 20th Century-Fox Hour, Wagon Train, Studio 57, Studio One, Playhouse 90, Alcoa Theatre, Rawhide, Laramie, Sam Benedict, Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( the episode " Manacled " original air date 1957 ), Zane Grey Theater, The Twilight Zone, General Electric Theater, Ben Casey, Combat !, The Outer Limits, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Marcus Welby, M. D., Medical Center, Kung Fu, and Cannon.

On 1 February 1917 in the North Sea, I'll Try had its first confrontation with the enemy when two submarines surfaced close to the smack and her companion the larger Boy Alfred.

He got parts in TV series of the day with bit parts in The Rifleman, The Real McCoys, The Twilight Zone, Daniel Boone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and three episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, before he got the role he would become famous for as " Goober " on the The Andy Griffith Show.

anonymous, nd, Laptev Sea Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research-Research Unit Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.

* anonymous, nd, Laptev Sea Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research-Research Unit Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.

", another called " Deathmate ", and with Christopher Lee in a 1964 Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode, " The Sign of Satan ", as well as in other series such as Convoy, The Rogues, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1965 ), Tarzan ( NBC series ) ( 1967 ), and It Takes a Thief ( 1969 ).

He also directed episodes of other shows, including The Outer Limits, Mannix, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Untouchables, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound GCB OM GCVO RN ( 29 August 1877 – 21 October 1943 ) was a British naval officer who served as First Sea Lord, professional head of the Royal Navy from June 1939 to September 1943.