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James L. Nelson is the author of Benedict Arnold’s Navy, as well as several novels that take place during the age of the sailing navies. His first book of nonfiction was Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads.
Prologue: A Very Delightful Country | p. ix |
The British Command | p. 1 |
The Greatest Events... in the Present Age | p. 10 |
Noddles Island | p. 17 |
Machias Sons of Liberty | p. 26 |
"The amiable, generous and Brave George Washington, Esquire" | p. 37 |
New Lords, New Laws | p. 46 |
"We Have the Utmost Reason to Expect Any Attack" | p. 53 |
The Congressional Navy Cabal | p. 62 |
"Our Weakness & the Enemy's Strength at Sea" | p. 76 |
George Washington's Secret Navy | p. 85 |
Hannah Puts to Sea | p. 93 |
Dolphin and Industry | p. 101 |
Building and Equipping an American Fleet | p. 110 |
Marblehead Boats at Beverly | p. 119 |
"Not a Moment of Time be lost" | p. 126 |
The Empire Strikes Back | p. 136 |
Hancock and Franklin | p. 148 |
Congress Pays a Visit | p. 156 |
"For Gods Sake hurry off the Vessels" | p. 168 |
Lee's Autumn Cruise | p. 177 |
"The blundering Captn Coit" | p. 186 |
Convoys and Cruisers | p. 198 |
"Hard gales and Squally" | p. 207 |
"[U]niversal joy ran through the whole" | p. 216 |
"His people are contentd" | p. 227 |
"And a Privateering we will go, my Boys" | p. 235 |
A New Army | p. 244 |
A New Year | p. 256 |
A New Fleet | p. 268 |
Commodore of the Fleet | p. 280 |
"[A] Stroke well aim'd" | p. 290 |
"It is with the greatest pleasure I inform you" | p. 301 |
Epilogue: Washington Rides South | p. 313 |
Acknowledgments | p. 331 |
Endnotes | p. 333 |
Bibliography | p. 368 |
Index | p. 375 |
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