My Textbook is a Delight (part 3) and Apparently Full of Sailing Ship References
In reference to the Monroe Doctrine.
American Civil War
In context of America buying Alaska from the tsar of Russia in 1867. Not really nautical, but I appreciate that Alaska was called "Walrussia".
This one's about Republican Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed of Maine in the late 19th century.
This is in reference to John D. Rockefeller of the Gilded Age (late 19th century America). The part about being "windward of the law" adds so much to this sentence if one knows exactly the advantages of the weather-gage: it explains how he controlled law in choosing to ignore or not (i.e. perusing chase of the leeward ship or not), and had an overall advantage above the law.
Regarding the American Industrial Revolution.
Fairly self-explanatory.
In reference to the American Industrial Revolution in comparison to galleys of the Roman Empire.
In reference to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in relation to religion and apparently that religions are ships moored somewhere.
In regards to the Populist political party merging with the Democrats in the presidential election of 1896.
