![]() Some of these officers he met in his travels, and when he received honorary degrees at Oxford and Cambridge and many Some of his intimate friends among the militaryĪnd naval men in Europe had lost their lives in the war and this shocked him. His son, Lyle Mahan, a New York lawyer, came to Washington tonight.Īdmiral Mahan was as familiar with Europe, her history, and armaments as he was with American history, and knew many of the men actively identified with the war in high places in England, Germany, and France. He died in the presence of his wife and two daughters. ![]() He decided to enter the naval hospital here. On Saturday the Admiral's condition became such that Daniels said tonight the Admiral was the best-informed man on the war and its lessons he had conversed with. ![]() Only last week Admiral Mahan visited Secretary Daniels at the Navy Department, and Mr. Mahan and their daughters, Helen and Ellen. Of organic heart disease developed in September, and recurred late in October, just before Admiral Mahan came to Washington with Mrs. Order prohibiting American military and naval officers from commenting on the conflict, but Admiral Mahan, while discontinuing his writings on the war, never lost interest in it one moment. The demand on him from American and foreign publications was cut short by President Wilson's There were great demands made upon him for comments as a naval expert, and during the earlyĭays of the war he gave many interviews and wrote a number of articles dealing with the contest. The first month of hostilities deeply affected him. Though he was in his seventy-fourth year, Admiral Mahan was in apparently good health until the war began. But he had hardly made a beginning when his heart gave way, overtaxed by his This was to be a monumental work, and he had given thought to it for many years. 1 to take up his labors as a research associate in the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution, and was pursuing a special line of historical research with a view to writing a history of AmericanĮxpansion and its bearing on sea power. Great struggle, its relation to sea power, and the naval and strategic problems and lessons being solved or taught by the war, but that the events of the war greatly excited his mind and heart.Īdmiral Mahan came to Washington on Nov. They said that Admiral Mahan was not only most keenly interested in the Three intimate friends of Admiral Mahan, who met him frequently on his visit to Washington this Winter, expressed the belief tonight that the war in Europe had hastened his death. N., retired, America's foremost naval strategist and the world's greatest authority on sea power, died suddenly at the United States Naval Hospital here at 7:15 o'clock
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