Book description
The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the American Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of the country's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, that truly revealed the new nation's character-above all,…
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Jay Dolin is a lifelong lover of the sea and all things naval history, and it shows!
Rebels at Sea is the fascinating tale of how Americans outfitted privateers during the American Revolution in order to undermine British naval supremacy. This was a story from the American Revolution that I had never heard before and it shed new light on both that conflict and period for me.
I was truly enraptured by the pluck of the rebelling colonists who outfitted merchant ships with cannons and everyday sailors who turned themselves into a makeshift navy. It truly gave a whole new…
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