Farragut returned to the European Squadron with the modern USS Franklin as flagship. The voyage joined personal continuity, since his early career had included European waters, with a national diplomatic message. Long before the Great White Fleet, the deployment displayed American ships, officers, and capabilities abroad after the Civil War. It also announced that a reunited country was translating wartime mobilization and new infrastructure into sustained presence on the world stage.
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Postwar diplomacy with the European Squadron
After the Civil War, Farragut and USS Franklin led a European deployment that advertised the reunited United States as a renewed naval power.