Editing Grover Cleveland (section)

===Military policy, 1893–1897===
The second Cleveland administration was as committed to military modernization as the first, and ordered the first ships of a navy capable of offensive action. Construction continued on the Endicott program of [[Seacoast defense in the United States|coastal fortifications]] begun under Cleveland's first administration.<ref name="Berhow, pp. 9-10" /><ref name="cdsg.org" /> The adoption of the [[Krag–Jørgensen]] rifle, the U.S. Army's first bolt-action repeating rifle, was finalized.<ref>Bruce N. Canfield "The Foreign Rifle: U.S. Krag–Jørgensen" ''American Rifleman'' October 2010 pp. 86–89, 126, 129</ref><ref>Hanevik, Karl Egil (1998). Norske Militærgeværer etter 1867</ref> In 1895–1896 Secretary of the Navy [[Hilary A. Herbert]], having recently adopted the aggressive naval strategy advocated by Captain [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]], successfully proposed ordering five [[battleship]]s (the {{sclass|Kearsarge|battleship|5}} and {{sclass|Illinois|battleship|4}}es) and sixteen [[torpedo boat]]s.<ref>Friedman, pp. 35–38</ref><ref>Bauer and Roberts, pp. 162–165</ref> Completion of these ships nearly doubled the Navy's battleships and created a new torpedo boat force, which previously had only two boats. The battleships and seven of the torpedo boats were not completed until 1899–1901, after the Spanish–American War.<ref>Bauer and Roberts, pp. 102–104, 162–165</ref>