One hundred years ago this December, the Great White Fleet left Hampton Roads becoming the first and only global naval parade in history. When commemorating the event it's easy to focus on the fleet's notable achievements. Over a 14 month period, 14,000 men on 16 battleships and auxiliaries, traveled 46,000 miles, circumnavigated the world and demonstrated to Europe and the Far East, American strength during a time of peace. Painted white, but with ship bows still decorated with the gilded scrollwork of a bygone era, the fleet was greeted by increasingly enthusiastic crowds at 20 different domestic and foreign ports of call. By February of 1909, the battleships had returned to Virginia in excellent shape and on schedule for a grand finale a few days before President Theodore Roosevelt left office.
Why T.R. Sent the Great White Fleet
2007
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