up next, a walking tour through the historic navy yard organized by the national ms. him of the united the navy. this program is about 75 minutes. welcome to the washington navy yard. i m the director of education here at the national museum of and this tour will take us throughout the history of the washington navy yard, which is a very extensive one. the yard itself is seen a lot of different historical events. some happy, some, some every day events. the yard itself has changed dramatic he over the many years. andas first founded in 1798 it was around that time that the united ace realized we needed a standing military force. he was after the american revolution that all the military was basically disbanded because of the sentiments from before the american revolution, who had a standing army at that time that was stationed in the united states. the british, with that idea still fresh in their mind, they realize they didn t want a standing military. we started having
this is a very extensive yard. the yard itself has seen a lot of different historical event. events. the yard itself has changed dramatically over the many years. it was first founded in 1798 and it was around that time that the united states realized that we needed a standing military force. it was after the american revolution that all the military was disbanded because of the sentiments from before the american revolution. who had a standing army stationed in the united states? the british. american merchant ships were being attacked in the mediterranean. we needed a standing military. more importantly we knew they navy to protect american interest all over the globe. thatongress basically said we yes, we need a navy. they passed a resolution founding the united states navy and commissions different naval yards to build a numerous amount igates for ther navu/ the navy. we realize is that not only did we need ships of being built but we needed navy yards to build those
i m the director of education here at the national museum of the u.s. navy, and this tour will take us throughout the history of the washington navy yard, which is a very extensive one. the art itself has seen a lot of yard itself has seen a lot of different historical events. some happy, some sad some every , day events. the yard itself has changed dramatically over the many years. it was first founded in 1798 and it was around that time that the united states realized we needed a standing military force. it was after the american revolution that all the military was basically disbanded because of the sentiments from before the american revolution, who had a standing army at that time that was stationed in the united states. the british, with that idea still fresh in their mind, they realize they didn t want a standing military. we started having problems overseas. american merchant ships were being attacked in the mediterranean. we realized we needed that standing militar
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