Benedict Arnold's Navy
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�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.
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