Benedict Arnold's Navy

Benedict Arnolds 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. Nelsons finely written narrative is a winner.. --Naval History. James Nelson is a master both of his period and of. the English language.. --Patrick OBrian, author of. Master And Commander. Covering one of historys great tipping point. battles, Benedict Arnolds 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 Arnolds fearless leadership against. staggering odds in a northern wilderness secured for. America the independence that he would later try. to betray.