The government adopted protectionism after the Spanish-American War to develop its native industry and built up a powerful navy, the "Great White Fleet".
The intelligence for the report was gathered during the visit of the Great White Fleet to Auckland over six days in 1908.
The Navy assigned him to many different ships, including having him participate in the Great White Fleet and its visit to Japan.
16 December 1907, Hampton Roads - Send-off for the Great White Fleet, which included the USS Georgia, 15 other battleships, a torpedo boat squadron and transports, USS Truxtun
Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet was refueled there on its famous round-the-world cruise.
She participated in the voyage of the Great White Fleet, and was decommissioned in 1920 to be sold for scrap in 1923.
The Great White Fleet, the dispatch of US naval forces to the orient between 1907 and 1909.
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Some of the most notable of these were films showing the royal visit of the Duke and Duchess of York for the opening of the first sitting of the Parliament of Australia (the session itself could not be filmed due to poor lighting), the visit of America's Great White Fleet and the Victoria's Second Boer War Contingent leaving South Africa.