The pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War, The US Navy had been stripped to the bones after the American Civil War, but with Brazilian and Spanish naval power on the rise, the United States was forced to revive its fleet. Following a series of oceangoing monitors, the development of the first true US battleships began with the experimental Maine and Texas, followed by the three-ship Indiana class, and the Iowa class, which...
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