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Key Battles of American History

The Battleship Texas with Sean McIver (Part 1)

Key Battles of American History

Key Battles of American History

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4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this two-part topical episode, Sean McIver returns to the podcast!  Sean and James discuss the origin of modern battleships, the history-making introduction of the HMS Dreadnought, the first ships called Texas, and the modern USS Texas’ service...

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0:00.0

War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

0:10.8

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

0:16.5

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

0:24.1

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

0:26.8

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

0:32.8

Here is your host, James Early.

0:43.5

Thank you. host, James Early. Hello, everybody.

0:44.6

This is James, as always.

0:46.7

And before we get into the episode proper, I wanted to say a few words about it.

0:51.8

Recently, I had a patron of mine, a member of Early Raiders, request that I do

0:56.5

an episode on the battleship, Texas. And so, who better to discuss that with than Sean McIver?

1:02.9

That's one of his passions studying the history of that particular ship, and it's a very

1:08.8

great interest to me as well. So, Sean and I sat down to discuss it and I was

1:13.8

thinking the episode would be an hour tops maybe a little bit less but you know how it is when

1:19.2

Sean and I are passionate about a topic and we sit down to talk about it things can go pretty

1:24.2

long so we ended up going for about an hour and a half. So instead of

1:28.8

giving you an episode that's an hour and a half long, what I decided to do is break it into two

1:33.1

roughly equal parts. Each one is about 45 minutes, give or take. So what you're about to hear

1:39.8

is part one of Sean and my discussion of the battleship, Texas.

1:45.3

I hope you enjoy it, and then next week you'll hear part two.

1:49.2

Take care.

1:51.4

Hello, and welcome to a special episode of Key Battles of American History.

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