Название: If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy--from the Revolution to the War of 1812
Автор: George C. Daughan
Издательство: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465016073
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 568
Размер: 2,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown.