The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America\'s scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain\'s sea power. -- The Wall Street Journal Few know of the valor and courage of Benedict.
Ironically without the tarnished hero of Valcour, the US might not exist today.
In novelistic prose, Kelly conveys the starkness of close-quarter naval warfare, where retreat was impossible...
Vividly written...
The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America\'s scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain\'s sea power