"Harborless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shore-line, applied with special force to one so extensive as that of the United States Atlantic coast in 1813. Cape Cod to the north and Cape Fear to the south were conspicuous examples of such projection. Combined with the relatively shelterless and harborless central stretch, intervening between them, from the Chesapeake to Sandy Hook, they constituted insuperable obstacles to sustained intercommunication by water. The presence of the enemy in great numbers ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 2 • Alfred Thayer Mahan |
