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DAVID F. LONG, retired after 45 years as Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, has written a number of diplomatic and U.S. naval works, including Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of U.S. Naval Officers, 1798-1883, and such naval biographies as Nothing Too Daring...David Porter, 1780-1843

ady to Hazard... William Bainbridge, 1774-1833

d Sailor-Diplomat... James Biddle, 1783-1848, as well as edited A Documentary History of U.S. Foreign Relations.