* 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-The Influence of Sea Power upon History

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.

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

* September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.

* September 17 – Alfred de Vigny, French author ( b. 1797 )

* September 7 – Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter ( born 1856 )

* September 26 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist ( d. 1962 )

* September 16 – Alfred Noyes, English poet ( d. 1958 )

* September 3 – Emil Oskar Nobel, younger brother of Alfred Nobel ( killed in an explosion ) ( b. 1843 )

* September 12 – Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher ( d. 1984 )

Massamba-Débat, whose powers had been curtailed by the CNR, resigned on September 4, and Prime Minister Alfred Raoul served as acting head of state until December 31, 1968, when the CNR formally became the country's supreme authority and Ngouabi, as head of the CNR, assumed the presidency.

* The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte ( in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke ) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre ( Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994 ; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004 ; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996 ); the dance drama Dreyfus-J ' accuse ( Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994 ) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage ( Arte, April 1994 ; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994 ; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.

Thirty delegates attended a founding conference, held in September 1938, in the home of Alfred Rosmer just outside Paris.

* Alfred Claus Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( Tübingen, 8 November 1937 — Berlin, 28 October 1987 ), married at Wilflingen on 24 April 1962 to his distant cousin Marie Sophie Schenk Freiin von Stauffenberg ( b. Berlin, 23 September 1937 ), and had three sons:

Schaumburg's transition from a rural community to that of a suburban metropolis began with Alfred Campanelli's first large scale suburban-style development in 1959 and Woodfield Mall's opening on September 9, 1971.

Alfred Delp ( 15 September 1907 in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden – 2 February 1945 in Berlin ) was a German Jesuit priest who was executed for his resistance to the Nazi régime in Germany.

He married Louisa Caroline Harcourt Seymour on 2 September 1862, with whom he had two sons: Henry and Alfred.

The cover of Mad Magazine No. 129 by artist Norman Mingo, dated September 1969, showed a split Alfred E. Neuman, the " old " Alfred on the left wearing a " My Country: Right or Wrong " lapel button, and the " young " long-haired Alfred on the right with a " Make Love Not War " button, and the cover statement " MAD Widens the Generation Gap.

Alfred Victor de Vigny ( 27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863 ) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.

By 1865 Hermann's health was deteriorating and a new principal conductor, Alfred Mellon, was appointed in September.

Alfred was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Howley, at the Private Chapel in Windsor Castle on 6 September 1844.

Donald Alfred Davie ( 17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995 ) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

On September 15, 1922, John William Billes and Alfred Jackson Billes invested their combined savings of $ 1, 800 in The Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd ( established in 1909 as the Hamilton Garage and Rubber Company ) in Toronto.