Monaghan's Grave in Samoa, 1900

ID: 4988
This file appears in: John R. Monaghan Statue: Martyr to An Obscure War

This photograph, taken in 1900, shows the graves of Monaghan and the men killed along with him.

This file appears in: John R. Monaghan Statue: Martyr to An Obscure War

By Larry Cebula
In 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan published his magnum opus, The Influence of Seapower Upon History. Thayer was a geopolitical strategist and an admiral in the United States navy, and he argued that throughout history great empires had flourished by…