Overview

In 1775 General George Washington secretly armed a handful of small ships and sent them to sea against the world's mightiest navy. From the author of the critically acclaimed Benedict Arnold's Navy, here is the story of how America's first commander-in-chief--whose previous military experience had been entirely on land--nursed the fledgling American Revolution through a season of stalemate by sending troops to sea. Mining previously overlooked sources, James L. Nelson's swiftly moving narrative shows that George Washington deliberately withheld knowledge of his tiny navy from the Continental Congress for more than two critical months, and that he did so precisely because he knew Congress would not approve. “Mr. Nelson has taken 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: America's Struggle to Survive after Yorktown ""James Nelson is not the first historian to reveal this little-known albeit incredibly important aspect of our Revolution, but no one has done it more thoroughly or with greater literary grace."" --William M. Fowler, author of Empires at War “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

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Author:   James Nelson
Publisher:   International Marine Publishing Co
Imprint:   International Marine Publishing Co
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.504kg
ISBN:  

9780071628259

ISBN 10:   0071628258
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   16 June 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

1 The Greatest Events...in the Present Age 2 “The amiable, generous and Brave George Washington, Esquire...” 3 New Lords, New Laws 4 The British Command 5 Noddles Island 6 Machias Sons of Liberty 7 “We Have the Utmost Reason to Expect Any Attack...” 8 The Navy Cabal 9 Our Weakness & the Enemy’s Strength at Sea 10 George Washington’s Secret Navy 11 Hannah Puts to Sea 12 Dolphin and Industry 13 Building and Equipping an American Fleet 14 Marblehead Boats at Beverly 15 Not a Moment of Time be Lost 16 Hancock and Franklin 17 Congress Pays a Visit 18 “For Gods Sake Hurry Off the Vessels...” 19 Lee’s Autumn Cruise 20 The Blundering Captn Coit... 21 The Nancy 22 John Manley, Naval Hero 23 Broughton and Selman Sail Home 24 An American Navy 25 1777 26 The Last of Washington’s Navy

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James L. Nelsons novels include the five books of his Revolution at Sea saga and three in his Brethren of the Coast series. He has also written three histories of pivotal naval engagements in the American Revolution--Benedict Arnold's Navy; George Washington's Secret Navy; and General Washington's Great Gamble--all of which are published by McGraw-Hill. See also www.jameslnelson.com.

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