This true story of the American Revolution tells how a secretive Yankee genius, David Bushnell, set his sights on the Royal Navy and built and deployed the world's first submarine to carry the world's first torpedo.
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Lincoln Diamant is an award-winning Hudson Valley author and historian. His previous books inclued "Chaining the Hudson: The Fight for the River in the American Revolution" and "Hoopla on the Hudson," a history of the great 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration.
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The pyrrhic British victory at Bunker Hill, cost King George III a quarter of his commissioned officers in North America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Connecticut River, Royal Navy, American Turtle, New York Harbor, Boston Harbor, Continental Army, David Bushnell, East River, New Haven, Staten Island, Long Island Sound, Sergeant Lee New!
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The pyrrhic British victory at Bunker Hill, cost King George III a quarter of his commissioned officers in North America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Connecticut River, Royal Navy, American Turtle, New York Harbor, Boston Harbor, Continental Army, David Bushnell, East River, New Haven, Staten Island, Long Island Sound, Sergeant Lee New!
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- The East River (Images of America) by The Greater Astoria Historical Society in Front Matter, and page 4
- Marinus Willett: Defender of the Northern Frontier (New Yorkers and the Revolution) by Larry Lowenthal in Back Matter
- Sails and Steam in the Mountains: A Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain by Russell P. Bellico in Back Matter
- Sybil Ludington: The Call to Arms (New Yorkers and the Revolution) by V. T. Dacquino in Back Matter
- Greenfield Hill: A Poem In Seven Parts (BCL1-PS American Literature) by Timothy Dwight on page 25
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