The year is 1778, the ship is the 18-gun HMS _Sparrow_ , England's finest sloop of war, and the Captain is Richard Bolitho, sailing his command into the fury of battle. The American Revolution has turned the Atlantic coast into a refuge for privateers and marauding French warships, and it is up to y
Sloop Of War
โ Scribed by Kent, Alexander
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- Bolitho 4
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
1778: The year the American War of Independence became an all-out struggle for freedom from British rule -- and the year young Richard Bolitho took command of the Sparrow, a small, fast and well-armed sloop of war.
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