All the Brave Fellows

All the Brave Fellows
ISBN-10
0671038478
ISBN-13
9780671038472
Category
Fiction
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
2001-07-01
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
James L. Nelson

Description

In 1777, in the midst of the darkest period of the Revolutionary War, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb battles his way up river from Philadelphia to find his ship, the Falmouth, which has fallen into the hands of deserters from Washington's army

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