Then call us Rebels if you will we glory in the name, for bending under unjust laws and swearing faith to an unjust cause, we count as greater shame. -- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 12, 1862
April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension explode into civil war. And for those men who do not know in which direction their loyalty calls them, it is a time for decisions. Such a one is Lieutenant Samuel Bowater, an officer of the U.S. Navy and a native of Charleston, South Carolina.
Hard-pressed to abandon the oath he swore to the United States, but unable to fight against his home state, Bowater accepts a commission in the nascent Confederate Navy, where captains who once strode the quarterdecks of the world's most powerful ships are now assuming command of paddle wheelers and towboats. Taking charge of the armed tugboat Cape Fear, and then the ironclad Yazoo River, Bowater and his men, against overwhelming odds, engage in the waterborne fight for Southern independence.

Glory in the Name

Literature & Fiction

Nelson,James

United States

Perennial

An epic story of one man’s devotion to the American cause In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold’s treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between British forces and a swift end to the American rebellion. Benedict Arnold’s Navy is the dramatic chronicle of that desperate battle and of the extraordinary events that occurred on the American Revolution’s critical northern front. Written with captivating narrative vitality, this landmark book shows how Benedict Arnold’s fearless leadership against staggering odds in a northern wilderness secured for America the independence that he would later try to betray. Praise for James L. Nelson: "James Nelson is a master both of his period and of the English language." --Patrick O'Brian, author of Master and Commander "James L. Nelson tells this story with clarity and literary skill and with such ease and order that the reader feels he is attending a dissertation on history given by a consummate lecturer." --Ron Berthel, Associated Press, on Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, winner of the American Library Association’s 2004 Award for Best Military History "It is, by far, the best Civil War novel I’ve read; reeking of battle, duty, heroism and tragedy. It’s a triumph of imagination and good, taut writing . . . " --Bernard Cornwell on Glory in the Name, winner of the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award

Benedict Arnold's Navy: The Ragtag Fleet That Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution

History

Americas

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

�Benedict Arnold�s Navy is an excellent book.� . --Associated Press. �This book must be on the shelf of anyone who is. interested in our struggle for independence, a war. we should not have won against the strongest nation. on earth, but did.� . --Sea History. �A suspenseful, vivid account.� . --Wall Street Journal. �Nelson�s finely written narrative is a winner.� . --Naval History. �James Nelson is a master both of his period and of. the English language.� . --Patrick O�Brian, author of. Master And Commander. Covering one of history�s great �tipping point�. battles, Benedict Arnold�s Navy recounts the courageous. and exemplary campaign of Arnold and his. cobbled-together fleet of �ships� against a much. superior British force in the Battle of Valcour Island. (Lake Champlain) in October 1776.This landmark. book shows how Arnold�s fearless leadership against. staggering odds in a northern wilderness secured for. America the independence that he would later try. to betray.

Benedict Arnold's Navy

Sports & Outdoors

George Washington's Secret Navy: How the American Revolution Went to Sea

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.

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On The Volcano

Children's Books

Putnam Juvenile

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The Pirate Round

Genre Fiction

Corgi

This is the second book in the enthralling "Revolution at Sea" series. In the late summer of 1775, General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder has dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. A desperate plan is hatched - to send a ship under the command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb to Bermuda to capture the British powder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, set by a traitor among the patriots, and one from which even Biddlecomb cannot escape. Washington despatches his aide-de-camp, Major Edward Fitzgerald, to hunt the traitor down, while Biddlecomb must rely on cunning and seamanship to free his men and the ship, and to capture the gunpowder that is the lifeblood of the fight for liberty. Divided by an ocean but bound by the cause, as well as by their own private fears, Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald must take on a common enemy - the greatest military power on earth...It is a powerful saga of the American Revolution - a stirring maritime adventure in the epic, true-to-life tradition of Patrick O'Brian.

The Maddest Idea

All the Brave Fellows

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Corgi Books

the pirate round [Paperback] by james nelson

Military

Business & Money

Biography & History

Transworld Publishers

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Glory in the Name

Benedict Arnold's Navy: The Ragtag Fleet That Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution

Benedict Arnold's Navy

George Washington's Secret Navy: How the American Revolution Went to Sea

On The Volcano

The Pirate Round

The Maddest Idea

All the Brave Fellows

the pirate round [Paperback] by james nelson

The Maddest Idea