Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Alfred Thayer Mahan across 6 places, from 1840 to 1914.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy (USN) officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 won immediate recognition, espWikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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27 September 1840exact date
West Point, New Yorkattested“Mahan was born on September 27, 1840, at West Point, New York, to Dennis Hart Mahan, a professor at the United States Military Academy and the foremost American expert on fortifications, and Mary Helena Okill Mahan (1815–1893), daughter…”source: Wikipedia: Alfred Thayer Mahan
27 September 1840exact date
United States Military Academyattested“Mahan was born on September 27, 1840, at West Point, New York, to Dennis Hart Mahan, a professor at the United States Military Academy and the foremost American expert on fortifications, and Mary Helena Okill Mahan (1815–1893), daughter…”source: Wikipedia: Alfred Thayer Mahan
27 September 1840exact date
United Statesattested“Mahan was born on September 27, 1840, at West Point, New York, to Dennis Hart Mahan, a professor at the United States Military Academy and the foremost American expert on fortifications, and Mary Helena Okill Mahan (1815–1893), daughter…”source: Wikipedia: Alfred Thayer Mahan
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St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Churchattested“In 1899, at Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, Mahan emphasized his own religious experience and declared that one needed a personal relationship with God given through the work of the Holy Spirit.”source: Wikipedia: Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Brooklynattested“In 1899, at Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, Mahan emphasized his own religious experience and declared that one needed a personal relationship with God given through the work of the Holy Spirit.”source: Wikipedia: Alfred Thayer Mahan
1 December 1914exact date
Washington, D.C.attested“In 1909, Mahan published The Harvest Within: Thoughts on the Life of the Christian, which was "part personal testimony, part biblical analysis, part expository sermon." Mahan died in Washington, D.C., of heart failure on December 1, 1914…”source: Wikipedia: Alfred Thayer Mahan
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St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church1 presence · 1899
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Naval War Collegementioned“In 1885, he was appointed as a lecturer in naval history and tactics at the Naval War College.”source: Wikipedia: Alfred Thayer Mahan
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German Empirementioned“Tirpitz, an intense navalist who believed ardently in Mahan's dictum that whatever power rules the sea also ruled the world, had The Influence of Sea Power Upon History translated into German in 1898 and had 8,000 copies distributed for…”source: Wikipedia: Alfred Thayer Mahan
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