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Navy Department

noun

A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1798 and combined with the War Department in 1947.

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"Navy department" Quotes from Famous Books

... contracts. I have noticed them here with your Whig party and your Democratic party for the last thirteen years, and I have never seen any head of a Department strong enough to resist these influences. ... Thirteen years' experience has taught me that wherever you allow the Postoffice or Navy Department to do anything which is for the benefit of contractors you may consider the thing as done. I could point to more than a dozen of these contracts. ... A million dollars a year is a power that will be felt. For ten years it amounts to ten million dollars, and ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... to complete the frigates, the United States, the Constitution, and the Constellation, work on which had been suspended when the Algerine troubles subsided; and further, to authorize the construction or purchase of twelve additional vessels. For the management of this force, the Navy Department was created by the Act of April 30, 1798. By an Act of May 28, the President was authorized to raise a military force of ten thousand men, the commander of which should have the services of "a suitable number of major-generals." On July 7, the treaties with France that had so ...

— Washington and His Colleagues • Henry Jones Ford