The Humpherys Family

Minutemen of the Sea

Record Added: 11/4/2012
Author Tom Cluff
Illustrator Tom O'Sullivan
Setting United States
Topic History: American Revolut
Publisher Follett Publishing Co.
Year 1955
Age 9-12   Pages 223
Description Printed dustjacket
 
Tells the story of the Machias affair, a little-known incident at the beginning of the Revolutionary War between some Maine fishermen and farmers aboard their ship Unity and the British cutter, the Margaretta. One of the first incidents in US naval history.
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