User:Herbiederby/Navy Department Library/Bibliography

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Original: On March 31, 1800, President John Adams wrote to Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert directing him to establish a library of "the best writing...on the theory and practice of naval architecture, navigation, gunnery, hydraulics, hydrostatics, and all branches of mathematics subservient to the profession of the sea."

-- is a both a direct quote from the "about the library" page from the overarching website i am using

-- want to remove the citation, and add more about the letter itself which is from the library history reference

History section immediately then goes into 1812... the original beginning is not there which is shown in the library history reference

Interested in adding the "legislation" reference as well with the establishment as a key origin event.