PORTSMOUTH PLAYED A BIG PART IN BIRTH OF OUR NATION'S NAVY.(PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS)

The Virginian Pilot | May 4, 1997 | Copyright

Byline: Alan Flanders

The arguments about the future role of the Navy and defense cutbacks, now familiar to most contemporary readers, would have been all too familiar to people two hundred years ago.

Early in our national history, isolationism and neutrality became popular. Many in Congress claimed that further commitment toward building seagoing fighting ships was unnecessary and just too expensive.

Finally, it took the age-old argument about freedom of the seas - and the combined threats of a war with France, a former ally, and the belligerence ...

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