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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · siege and fortification · naval warfare and sea power · garrisons guarding naval facilities · fortifications · dock-yards and arsenals
Usually: argument (1) · exhortation (1)
He adds that commercial security requires a navy, with dockyards, arsenals, fortifications, and—until fleets can fully protect them—moderate garrisons to guard against raids and destruction.
any instant seized by one or the other of two neighboring and formidable powers? To act this part would be to desert all the usual maxims of prudence and policy. If we mean to be a commercial people, or even to be secure on our Atlantic side, we must endeavor, as soon as possible, to have a navy. To this purpose there must be dock-yards and arsenals; and for the defense of these, fortifications, and probably garriso…