The Great White Fleet 1907-1909 President Theodore Roosevelt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Theodore_Roosevelt,_1904.jpg American Imperialist Leaders Senator Albert Captain Alfred Beveridge T. Mahan Senator Henry General Leonard http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/ Cabot Lodge Wood Mahan’s Writings and Theories Goodreads.com T.R. to Mahan, 1897 “This letter must, of course, be considered as entirely confidential, because in my position I am merely carrying out the policy of the secretary and the President. I suppose I need not tell you that as regards Hawaii I take your views absolutely, as indeed I do on foreign policy generally. If I had my way we would annex those islands tomorrow. If that is impossible I would establish a protectorate over them. I believe we should build the Nicaraguan canal at once, and, in the meantime, that we should build a dozen new battleships, half of them on the Pacific Coast; and these battleships should have large coal capacity and a consequent increased radius of action.” http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/troiexp.pdf Great White Fleet 1st Squadron 1st Division USS Connecticut BB-18 Flagship USS Louisiana BB-19 USS Kansas BB-21 USS Vermont BB-20 Great White Fleet 1st Squadron 2nd Division USS Georgia BB-15 USS New Jersey BB-16 USS Virginia BB-13 USS Rhode Island BB-17 Great White Fleet 2nd Squadron 3rd Division USS Minnesota BB-22 USS Missouri BB-11 USS Maine BB-10 USS Ohio BB-12 Great White Fleet 2nd Squadron 4th Division USS Alabama BB-8 USS Kearsarge BB-5 USS Illinois BB-7 USS Kentucky BB-6 California Replacements USS Nebraska BB-14 USS Wisconsin BB-9 U.S. as World Power https://www.pinterest.com/pin/459859811930417688/?lp=true Great White Fleet Departs, Dec. 1907 https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/i06000/i06216.jpg; http://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=5942 https://www.flickr.com/photos/konabish/6592171849 Rear-Admiral Robley “Fighting Bob” Evans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robley_D._Evans#/media/File:Robley_ Dunglison_Evans.jpg Map of Great White Fleet’s Route The Great White Fleet’s Tour Rio De Janeiro, Dec. 1907 to Jan. 1908 https://www.hazegray.org/features/gwf/gwf-fl8.jpg “United States Fleet in the Straits of Magellan, the Morning of February 8, 1908” by Henry Reuterdahl, 1910 https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/kn10000/kn10857.jpg San Diego (Coronado, California) Naval Review, San Francisco, May 1908 https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/h02000/h02390.jpg Rear-Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stillman_Sperry Auckland, New Zealand, Aug. 1908 https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/i01000/i01489.jpg “Visit of the United States Fleet to Sydney, Aug. 1908,” by Norman Carter https://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/tag/theodore-roosevelt/ Parade in Sydney and Melbourne http://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=5942 T.R. to Mahan, 1897 “I am fully alive to the danger from Japan, and I know that it is idle to rely on any sentimental goodwill toward us.” http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/troiexp.pdf Japan https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/i06000/i06109.jpg Japanese Postcard https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/i06000/i06114k.jpg Ceylon and Egypt http://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=5942; http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history/files/import/29565-fleetportsaid.jpg Earthquake, Messina, Sicily Dec. 28, 1908 https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/events/ev-1900s/ev-1908/messina.htm Return of the Great White Fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_White_Fleet_return2.jpg The Great White Fleet T.R. Greets the Sailors of the Battleship Connecticut upon return to the Chesapeake .