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	Gunboat diplomacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In international politics, gunboat diplomacy refers to the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of military power —implying or constituting a direct threat of warfare, should terms not be agreeable to the superior force.
		As the USA became a military power in the 1910s, the Rooseveltian version of gunboat diplomacy, big stick diplomacy, was partially superseded by dollar diplomacy: replacing the big stick with the "juicy carrot" of American private investment.
		Gunboat diplomacy in the post-Cold War world was still based on on naval forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy (600 words)

	Gunboat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A single broadside from a frigate would demolish a gunboat, but a frigate facing a half-dozen gunboats in an estuary would likely be seriously damaged before it could manage to sink all of them.
		Gunboats were also easy and quick to build; the combatants in the 1776 Battle of Valcour Island on New York's Lake Champlain were mostly gunboats built on the spot.
		Gunboats were a key part of the French plans to invade Britain in 1804, and were heavily used by Denmark.
	www.paducah.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gunboats (546 words)

	gunboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the age of sail, a gunboat was usually a small undecked vessel carrying a single smoothbore cannon in the bow.
		The advantages of this type of gunboat were that since it only carried a single cannon, that cannon could be quite heavy - for instance a 32-pounder, and that the boat could be maneuvered in shallow or restricted waters, where the sailing was quite difficult for larger ships.
		Gunboats were a key part of the French plans to invade Great Britain in 1804, and were heavily used by Denmark.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /gunboat.html (544 words)

	Gunboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the age of sail, a gunboat was usually a small undecked vessel carryinga single smoothbore cannon in thebow.
		Gunboats were also easy and quick tobuild; the combatants in the 1776 Battle of Valcour Island on New York 's Lake Champlain were mostly gunboats built on the spot.
		Gunboats were a key part of the French plans to invade Great Britain in 1804, and wereheavily used by Denmark.
	www.therfcc.org /gunboat-205587.html (485 words)

	gunboat on Encyclopedia.com
		In the U.S. Civil War both sides used as gunboats, on the Mississippi and other rivers, any boat that had an engine and had room to mount a gun.
		Gunboats were widely employed by the European powers in the Far and Middle East and Africa during the late 19th and early 20th cent.
		More recently, gunboats equipped with gas-turbine propulsion plants were used by the U.S. navy for coastal patrol operations during the Vietnam War.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g1/gunboat.asp (398 words)

	USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum
		The U.S.S. Cairo was one of seven ironclad gunboats named in honor of towns along the upper Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
		The "city class" gunboats were designed by Samuel M. Pook and built by river engineer James B. Eads.
		Over the years the gunboat was soon forgotten and her watery grave was slowly covered by a shroud of silt and sand.
	www.nps.gov /vick/cairo/cairo.htm (720 words)

	Gunboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the age of sail a gunboat was usually a small vessel carrying a single smoothbore cannon in the bow.
		Gunboats were easy and quick to build; the combatants the 1776 Battle of Valcour Island on New York 's Lake Champlain were mostly gunboats built on the
		In this period gunboats were used the naval powers for police actions in or weaker countries for example in China.
	www.freeglossary.com /Gunboat (702 words)

	Gunboat Diplomacy: Does It Have A Place In The 1990's?
		Some maritime strategists associate gunboat diplomacy with the bygone era of colonialism, concluding that it is an obsolete concept; however, gunboat diplomacy will be a vital element in the U.S. maritime posture of the 1990's.
		Peter Nailor writes that gunboat diplomacy is an outdated tool that was important when the global community consisted of a smaller number of sovereign states controlling or dominating a larger number of dependencies.
		Gunboat Diplomacy has been and will continue to be a calculated diplomatic approach that offers maritime nations an important tool not available to those nations who either abolish or fail to establish this capability.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1991/GTD.htm (2977 words)

	The ASHEVILLE CLASS Patrol Gunboat (PG)
		The largest of the Navy's coastal patrol craft, the patrol gunboat was conceived in the early 1960's in response to the volatile Cuban Missile Crisis, intended primarily for coastal patrol and blockade operations as well providing task force protection against possible patrol boat missile threat.
		Because of their high speed and maneuverability, the gunboats were valuable in support of inshore raiding and reconnaissance operations.
		During one particular storm, the crew of one gunboat saw their ship heel over to the point that the inclinometer bubble reached 65 degrees.
	www.gunboatriders.com /theboats/general_spec.html (894 words)

	GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY
		Gunboat diplomacy had its origins in the Opium War, when the Chinese rebelled against the British importation of opium into China, and the British response was to send a gunboat up the Yangtze River.
		The invasion of Panama to depose Manuel Noriega was the fruit of a tree planted with an American gunboat a century earlier.
		The gunboat is the iron fist in the velvet glove; that rock-solid coercion the commerce driven republic is willing to resort to in order to promote its agenda.
	www.worldfreeinternet.net /news/nws2.htm (2865 words)

	Gunboat fire-tube marine steam boiler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The so-called "gunboat boiler" was provided with tubes in the extension of the furnace.
		A cylindrical boiler, of relatively small diameter and extended length, provided with a furnaces in a fire-tube leading to a bank of flue-tubes through the water drum to the smoke-box at the boilers backside.
		The gunboat boilers were, as the name indicates, used in small navy ships such as gunboats, escort vessels and corvettes where the width and the height were limited.
	www.steamesteem.com /construction/gunboat_boiler.html (110 words)

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		Until the spring of 1900, the gunboat parolled the islands, enforced the blockade, convoyed troop transports, and helped the Army maintain communications between its units operating on various islands of the archipelago.
		The gunboat operated at Mare Island until the beginning of 1902, at which time she received orders to American Samoa for duty as station ship.
		From 15 February to 7 March 1914, she plied waters off the Republic of Haiti to protect American citizens against guerrilla terrorists fighting the government, and from 7 to 13 March she was at Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, with the President of Santo Domingo on board.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/patrol/pg14.htm (2149 words)

	Gunboat Quilts
		Their primary goal was to raise enough money for the purchase of a gunboat for each of their respective cities.
		Although she married, at the time she made the quilts she was a widow, and the mother of two sons in the Army.
		To see them is to understand the passion of southern women to support the Confederacy and the work of their brothers, husbands, and sons.
	www.quiltersmuse.com /gunboat_quilts.htm (1469 words)

	Gunboat Diplomacy
		The governor was replaced with a more sensible Diplomat and 12 London Policemen were put on the island to maintain law and order for the next two years.
		Gunboat diplomacy works and saves unnecessary loss of life….
		I could never understand why President Regan felt it necessary to put armed troops into Granada when a similar event occurred, especially when you consider that the number of troops he deployed was greater than the total population on the island.
	www.the-old-sea-dog.net /d21.html (915 words)

	USN Ships--USS Vicksburg (Gunboat # 11)
		Among her activities was the capture, in March 1918, of the schooner Alexander Agassiz with five Germans on board.
		The gunboat spent the rest of the war and most of 1919 in California waters.
		Gunboats Petrel and Princeton are in the center background.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-v/pg11.htm (674 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Tamil rebels sink gunboat
		It says its gunboats were surrounded as they set off from Kankesanthurai port in the northern Jaffna peninsula.
		BBC Colombo correspondent Frances Harrison says the incident in surprising in that government gunboats were so close to the shore when it is standard operating procedure for naval boats to travel 70km away from the coast so as to be out of site and range of rebel forces.
		In this case the gunboat was sunk only eight nautical miles offshore, and in an area where the Tigers are known to have a base.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1233000/1233086.stm (379 words)

	The Gunboat Variant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To sign onto a gunboat game, the gunboat keyword must be specified as part of the variant identification: signon ?name password gunboat Gunboat is not really a variant in itself, any variant game can be of the gunboat type.
		For example: signon ?name password youngstown gunboat would be the method to sign on to a Youngstown variant game that was also a gunboat game.
		It is possible to change a non-gunboat game to a gunboat game with the set variant gunboat command, but this needs to be done before anyone has signed onto the game.
	www.diplom.org /Email/judge/info.gunboat.html (201 words)

	Gunboat Riders
		Gunboat sailors came from all walks of life and had many different skills.
		Some saw combat in Vietnam and suffered the pain of physical and mental wounds while some were lucky enough to avoid that conflict and still others arrived on-board after the horrors of Vietnam had ended.
		Atlantic gunboat riders, worn and tired as they weathered winter storms and summer hurricanes, knew that their counterparts in the Pacific were being mercilessly pounded by typhoons and monsoons.
	www.kec-co.com /gunboat_riders.htm (387 words)

	Gunboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Indonesian Gunboat Fires on Chinese Fishing Fleet, 1 Fisherman...
		An Indonesian naval vessel has fired on a Chinese fishing fleet, which was allegedly operating illegally.
		Last Tuesday, a US military ship, escorted by a small gunboat, was spotted off Zamboanga.
	www.wikiverse.org /gunboat (611 words)

	Benedict Arnold Gunboat
		A vessel that was part of a 15-ship squadron led by Benedict Arnold in a Lake Champlain engagement with a superior British fleet on October 11, 1776, has been found in the lake, its 50 feet of mast still standing, its large bow gun, a 12-pound cannon, still in place.
		It is similar to the Philadelphia, a gunboat sunk in the first engagement.
		The gunboat was found during a survey of the lake bottom begun in 1996 in reponse to an invasion of nonnative zebra mussels that threaten the lake's archaeological resources.
	www.archaeology.org /9709/newsbriefs/gunboat.html (352 words)

	Gunboat Diplomacy
		The wooden sailing ship mounted with cannons, the gunboat, the battleship, and finally the "airship" -- these proved the difference between global victory and staying at home, between empire and nothing much at all.
		Today, gunboat diplomacy seems like a phrase from some antiquated imperial past (despite our thirteen aircraft carrier task forces that travel the world making "friendly" house calls from time to time).
		At least as now imagined in the Pentagon, twenty-second century "gunboat diplomacy" will be conducted by what the Air Force's Space Command refers to as "space-based platforms" and the "cannons" will be a range of "exotic" weapons and delivery systems.
	www.motherjones.com /news/dailymojo/2004/04/03_667.html (2670 words)

	THE SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT GUNBOAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The war proved to be a "mosquito and bludgeon war", the Viet Cong being the mosquito and the U. Navy the bludgeon.
		The responsibility of the riverine force was to patrol the delta with gunboats and if the enemy was located, troops were landed from the gunboat or waiting troop transport boats.
		What was lacking was suitable artillery fire, the largest weapon fitted to the gunboats was a 40 Millimeter cannon or 80 millimeter mortar.
	www.sikorskyarchives.com /boat2.html (628 words)

	Alpha Class Xg-1 Star Wing (Assault Gunboat)
		The Assault Gunboat has proven to be quite deadly in the field of combat.
		The first experimental Assault Gunboats were used in the destruction of a Rebel base on Orion IV.
		The Assault Gunboat's targeting computer is located in its nose, while its sensor system is located behind the cockpit.
	www.galacticempiredatabank.com /AssaultGunboat.html (693 words)

	DP F1996M: Opening Survey, Part 3
		In a gunboat game there is a much smaller risk of Russia and Austria combining to attack Bulgaria in Autumn 1901, so the risk of the self-standoff in Ankara decreases.
		I have listed the most popular combination openings in regular and gunboat games, the requirements to be listed was that an opening had to be used in at least 5\% of the games.
		The 52 gunboat games saw 10 opening combinations, 4 of which were played with a frequency of at least 5\%.
	www.diplom.org /Zine/F1996M/Nelson/Part3.html (2433 words)

	AMERICAN GUNBOAT
		I asked for the drawings for this gunboat, but the shop owner told me that are not available...so I decided to buy the kit and after a little talk, I got it.
		The model represents a gunboat of the American Fleet that fought the battle on Lake Champlain.
		This kind of gunboat was armed with one gun and one carronade.
	www.anzwers.org /free/jpmodel/American-Gunboat-Datasheet.html (800 words)

	Gunboat Callao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The gunboat CALLAO was captured by the United States Navy early in the Spanish American War and was subsequently used by the U.S. Navy.The vessel was used by the Americans in the final attack on Manila on August13, 1898
		When it determined that the vessel was a Spanish gunboat, RALEIGH, OLYMPIA and BALTIMORE opened fire on her.
		It was later rumored that the commander of the gunboat was sentenced to be executed for not battling the American vessels.
	www.spanamwar.com /callao.htm (526 words)

	WS_FTP\csn\vessels,nov,64
		One steam gunboat of 6 guns nearly ready to go into commission.
		One ironclad steam gunboat undergoing alterations to decrease her draft of water.
		Steam sloop Tennessee completed, armed, and equipped for service, but unable from her great draft of water to get over Dog River Bar; arrangements are being made by constructing camels, etc., to lighten her over.
	www.csnavy.org /vessels,apr64.htm (1813 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - Gunboat Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Continental gunboat Philadelphia is the only surviving gunboat built and manned by American Forces during the Revolutionary War.
		Part of a hastily constructed fleet, she is one of 15 small craft with which Benedict Arnold fought 29 British vessels off Valcour Island in Lake Champlain in October 1776.
		Bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution in 1961, the Philadelphia and associated artifacts are part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/philadelphia.htm (162 words)

	edgunboatsmith.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edward (Gunboat) Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 17, 1887.
		Ed "Gunboat" Smith was a referee after he retired from being an active boxer.
		Six years earlier a careless thumb had dropped into Gunboat's eye and an alnost simultaneous jolt on the chin had knocked him out in Round One.
	www.harrygreb.com /edgunboatsmithbio.html (877 words)

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