The correct answer is English. It may not be on your choices, but this is the correct answer. The English colony was the first European colony to declare independence. They became the first European colony to be independent when they declared their independence in Rhode Island on May 4, 1776.
Mahan's influence on strategy
Captain, later Rear-Admiral, Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) was an American naval officer and historian. Influenced by Jomini's principles of strategy, he argued that in the coming wars, control of the sea would grant the power to control the trade and resources needed to wage war.
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