The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown. Revere and his companions rowed with muffled oars to avoid capture by the ...
Charles Stewart commanded every type of warship, from sloop to ship-of-the-line, and served every president, from John Adams to Abraham Lincoln, training many future senior naval officers along the way. Yet, Stewart cemented his reputation while in command of the Navy's most powerful frigate, the USS Constitution. Undefeated in battle, both ship ...
The first book in a trilogy, FIRE ON THE WATERS begins in 1863, when a wealthy young New York man named Eli Eaker impulsively enlists in the navy against the wishes of his family. As he heads toward Fort Sumter to help defend it against the Confederates, Eli must struggle not only with the horrors of war but with his love for his cousin Araminta, ...
Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur is America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones. His short and dramatic life is a story of triumph and tragedy told by the noted historian and author of some twenty books, Spencer Tucker. Decatur's raid into Tripoli Harbor in 1804 to burn the Philadelphia, a prized U.S. warship ...
Melville's 1843 trip home from the South Seas as an ordinary seaman on a man-of-war provided the basis for this novel. The macho world aboard the Neversink is presented as a microcosm of the world on shore and exposes some of the brutal customs of the American navy at the time.
Investigating the fascination pirates hold over the popular imagination, Earle takes the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoods and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture and death and the freedom of a short, violent life on the high seas.
In this second volume of Poyer's Civil War trilogy, Lieutenant Ker Claiborne of Virginia, formerly of the U.S. Navy, is now working for the Confederacy, where he rapidly becomes a hero. But his happy marriage is endangered when he meets a female warrior who stands beside him in battle....
Seventh in the award-winning Honor Series. Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, in French Indochina in 1883, meets up with opium warlords, Chinese-Malay pirates, and French gangsters. Perfect for the armchair historian and adventurer. Starred Booklist review compares it to the best historicalsea fiction ever writtenby Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Foresteras well ...
A crewman on the man-of-war "Neversink", White-Jacket gets his name from the shirt he turned into a coat and lined with rags. The journey he undertakes is dangerous - a man falls overboard and White-Jacket falls from the rigging.
The birth of the U.S. Sailing Navy had very few sailing ships that were sparsely armed with frugal living conditions for the ship's company. This book provides a wealth of detailed nautical information, stories and sea battle strategies from 1776-1876.
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