Coming May 16...
George Washington's Secret Navy:
How the American
Revolution Went to Sea
"Mr. Nelson takes an
episode that occupies no more than a few paragraphs in other histories of
the Revolution and, with convincing research and vivid narrative style,
turned it into an important, marvelously readable book."
Thomas Fleming, author of The
Perils of Peace and Liberty!
"A gripping and
fascinating book about the daring and heroic mariners who helped George
Washington change the course of history and create a nation. Nelson
wonderfully brings to life a largely forgotten but critically important
piece of America's past."
Eric Jay Dolin, author of
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
"The political
machinations are as exciting as the blood-stirring individual small-ship
actions in this meticulously researched story of the shadowing beginnings of
American Might on the seas."
Joan Druett, author of Island
of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
This is a rollicking tale of Washington’s seafaring rascals who pricked
Britannia’s trident, and set an example of courage and patriotism that
would eventually lead to independence.
William M.
Fowler, Jr. author of Rebels Under Sail
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first chapter, click on
George Washington's Secret Navy