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.

Mahan prepared a secret contingency plan of 1890 in case war should break out between Britain and the United States.

Ideologically, the United States Navy initially opposed replacing its sailing ships with steam-powered ships after the Civil War ; Mahan argued that only a fleet of armored battleships might be decisive in a modern war.

Mahan Hall at the United States Naval Academy, named after Admiral Mahan.

* The United States Naval Academy's Mahan Hall was named in his honor, as was Mahan Hall at the Naval War College.

Mahan Hall at the United States Military Academy was named for his father, Dennis Hart Mahan.

Others in the delegation were Andrew D. White, then the United States Ambassador to the German Empire ; Stanford Newel of Minnesota, then the United States Minister to the Netherlands ; Captain Alfred Mahan, of the United States Navy ; Captain William Crozier, of the United States Army ; and Frederick Holls of New York.

and the Navy League of the United States presented him with its Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement.

The name Mahan was assigned to these four United States Navy ships in honor of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval historian and theorist on sea power.

Colomb did not invent the term " sea-power ", as it is of very ancient origin, nor did he employ it until Captain Mahan of the United States Navy had made it a household word with all.

Detached from Mahan in December 1922, Fitch served at Rio de Janeiro until March 1927 as a member of the United States mission to Brazil before reporting back to the Navy Department for a brief tour of duty in Washington, D. C.

N. J. Spykman could be considered as a disciple and critic of both geostrategists Alfred Mahan, of the United States Navy, and Halford Mackinder, the British geographer.

Dennis Hart Mahan ( April 2, 1802 – September 16, 1871 ) was a noted American military theorist and professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1824-1871.

Mahan almost singlehandedly compiled and transferred the best of European engineering to the United States and other English-speaking parts of the world.

In the period of the Three States, this region came to belong to Baekje when it absorbed Mahan.

Nocona Boot Company and Justin Industries have since moved ; however, the Montague Boot Company has been established in downtown Nocona making boots for the Larry Mahan line at Cavender's Boot City.

Commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1861, Mahan served the Union in the American Civil War as an officer on USS Worcester, Congress, Pocahontas, and James Adger, and as an instructor at the Naval Academy.

Mahan was later described as a ' disciple ' of Laughton, although the two men were always at pains to distinguish between each other's line of work, Laughton seeing Mahan as a theorist while Mahan called Laughton ' the historian '.

* A. T. Mahan Elementary School and A. T. Mahan High School at Keflavik Naval Air Station in Iceland, were also named in his honor.

* The Negotiations at Ghent in 1814, A. T. Mahan, The American Historical Review, Vol.

Baekje absorbed or conquered other Mahan chiefdoms and, at its peak in the 4th century, controlled most of the western Korean peninsula.

al-Amin assembled a massive army at Baghdad with Eesa ibn Mahan at its head in 811 and invaded Khorasan, but al-Ma ' mun's general Tahir bin Husain ( d. 822 ) destroyed the army and invaded Iraq, laying siege to Baghdad in 812.

Recently, this trend has been revived with commissioning the harpsichordist, conductor, and scholar Mahan Esfahani to write a new orchestration of Bach's Art of Fugue, which was premiered at the BBC Proms in July of 2012.

On Akiyama's arrival in New York, he attempted to contact Alfred Thayer Mahan for advice and recommendations on how to study at either the US Naval Academy or Naval War College.

The USS Wachusett with Alfred Thayer Mahan in command, was stationed at Callao, Peru, protecting American interests during the final stages of the War of the Pacific.

* 10 March 2004, Mahan Abedin of Jamestown. org interviews Omar Bakri Mohammed at his London home

Mahan first used the term in his article " The Persian Gulf and International Relations ," published in September 1902 in the National Review, a British journal.

" In the fall of 1835, Oberlin opened a new theology school with Asa Mahan as President, Charles Finney as Professor of theology, and the Lane Rebels among the first theology students.

; Goldar: Voiced by Kerrigan Mahan ( credited as Ryan O ' Flannigan in the first two seasons ).

In Latter-day Saint theology, Cain is considered to be the quintessential Son of Perdition, the father of secret combinations ( i. e. secret societies and organized crime ), as well as the first to hold the title Master Mahan meaning master of great secret, that may murder and get gain.

* Mahan Hall: Built in 1907 as Felix Hall, Mahan was the first men's residence.

Among American Baptists who have revived such Calvinist ideas were Rolfe P. Barnard and Henry Mahan, who organised the first Sovereign Grace Bible Conference in Ashland, Kentucky in 1954, though groups designated as Sovereign Grace are not necessarily connected to them.

Among the first four faculty members were Tasker H. Bliss, a future Army Chief of Staff, James R. Soley, the first civilian faculty member and a future Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and, most famously, Captain ( later, Rear Admiral ) Alfred Thayer Mahan, who soon became renowned for the scope of his strategic thinking and influence on naval leaders worldwide.

The college was chartered by the Michigan Legislature on March 28, 1859, under the first president of the college, abolitionist Asa Mahan.

Mahan graduated from West Point in 1824, first in his class.

He married his first wife, Lucia Ann Jennison, daughter of Dr. Charles Jennison and Betsy Mahan, on August 27, 1845 and had three children together.

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.

Though Larry Mahan was the first to have six world all-around titles, Ferguson earned the distrinction of winning six consecutively.

He was the first person to standardize the typeset for Gurmukhi script, publish Guru Granth Sahib and Bhai Kahn Singh ’ s Mahan Kosh, the first Punjabi dictionary by using modern technique at his Sudarshan Printing Press.

In the religious texts of the Latter Day Saint movement, Master Mahan is a title assumed first by Cain and later by his descendant Lamech.