* 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.

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-The Influence of Sea Power upon History

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.

Nicholas J. Spykman could be considered as a disciple and critic of both geostrategists Alfred Mahan, and Halford Mackinder.

Alfred T. Mahan as a Captain

Mahan's name became a household word in the German navy, as Kaiser William II ordered his officers to read Mahan, and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ) used Mahan's reputation to finance a powerful surface fleet.

Young and Innocent ( U. S. title: The Girl Was Young ) is a 1937 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney and John Longden.

* Emrys Westacott ( Alfred U ) The Ethics of Gossiping

The State Department received the Research and Analysis Branch of OSS which was renamed the Interim Research and Intelligence Service or ( IRIS ) and headed by U. S. Army Colonel Alfred McCormack.

By 1932, the Great Depression had forced studios to cut back on needless expense and it was not until 1953 that wider aspect ratios were again used in an attempt to stop the fall in attendance due, partially, to the emergence of television in the U. S. However, a few producers and directors, among them Alfred Hitchcock, have been reluctant to use the anamorphic widescreen size featured in such formats as Cinemascope.

** U. S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

Gen. Alfred Terry's column, including twelve companies ( A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, and M ) of the 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's immediate command, Companies C and G of the 17th U. S. Infantry, and the Gatling gun detachment of the 20th Infantry departed westward from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory on May 17.

The international force with British Lieutenant-General Alfred Gaselee acting as the commanding officer of the Eight-Nation Alliance, eventually numbered 55, 000, with the main contingent being composed of Japanese soldiers: Japanese ( 20, 840 ), Russian ( 13, 150 ), British ( 12, 020 ), French ( 3, 520 ), U. S .( 3, 420 ), German ( 900 ), Italian ( 2080 ), Austro-Hungarian ( 75 ) and anti-Boxer Chinese troops.

* Alfred K. Flowers, U. S. Air Force Major General

* Alfred Martin Ray, Buffalo Soldier, served in the U. S. Army from 1872 to 1903, planted the US flag on San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898.

U. S. Navy Ensign Alfred Stow Leighton died in the explosion while in charge of a squad trying to recover bodies from the fort parapet.

Also in 2005, Carolyn Burke's substantial biography, Lee Miller, A Life, was published in the U. S. by Alfred A. Knopf and in the U. K. by Bloomsbury.

Alfred Emanuel " Al " Smith ( December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944 ) was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times and was the Democratic U. S. presidential candidate in 1928.

* Puleston, W. D. Mahan: The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, U. S. N 1939 online edition

Alfred Zehe was arrested in Boston in 1983 after being caught in a government-run sting operation in which he had reviewed classified U. S. government documents in Mexico and East Germany.

Shortly afterwards, on May 7, 1945, General Alfred Jodl signed the German military surrender, and on May 23 Speer was arrested on the orders of U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, together with the rest of the provisional German government led by Admiral Karl Dönitz, Hitler's successor as head of state.

* Evan Alfred Evans, Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals

* Alfred Verhulst, U. S. Air Force general

It also claims Ken Lucas, a former U. S. representative from the commonwealth's fourth congressional district, United Methodist Bishop Alfred W. Gwinn, current U. S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Carol Gatton, an automobile dealer executive and donor of the largest gift ever to the university, and Paul Chellgren, Chairman and CEO of Ashland Inc ..

* Alfred E. Smith ( 1873 – 1944 ), Governor of New York State and 1928 U. S. Presidential candidate

Alfred Packer served in the Union Army in the American Civil War, enlisting on April 22, 1862 at Winona, Minnesota in Company F, 16th U. S. Infantry Regiment, giving his occupation as a shoemaker.

Members were Alfred B. Meacham, former U. S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon ; Otto Mears, a railroad executive, and George W. Manypenny, former Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Steele along with U. S. Army General Alfred Howe Terry attempted unsuccessfully to persuade Sitting Bull to return to the United States.