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Mahan

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Ma·han  (m-hn), Alfred Thayer 1840-1914.
American naval officer and historian whose written works, such as The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890), prompted a worldwide buildup of naval strength prior to World War I.
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Noun1.MahanMahan - United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914)
Alfred Thayer Mahan


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First of all, Samuel Dundee an' Agnes Hewitt; the next day Albert Mahan an' Minnie Duncan; an' by the week-end Eddie Troy and Flo Mackintosh--all sailor-men, an' un sux weeks' time the last of them back tull their ships an' awa', an' no one o' them dreamin' of the wuckedness they'd been ot.
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