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(More customer reviews)The first volume of White's War of 1812 trilogy was well written and interesting but did not tell much of a story. This second volume addresses that deficiency. It does tell a decent story and does so in an enjoyable fashion.
Like the first, this book tells two parallel stories that only come together right at the end. On the one hand, the story of Isaac Biggs continues as he sails as third mate on an American Privateer. The second thread concerns his buddies from his days as a sailor pressed into the Royal Navy. They are now sailing on an American frigate. That frigate is the Chesapeake, the one captured by the HMS Shannon. They are taken as POWs to Halifax where they rot in prison. The story comes together as the privateers attempt to release the captives, and act the US Navy can't or won't attempt.
As was the first, this is a refreshing view of fighting sail given from the point of view of Americans rather than the British. It is well done and I hope the writing continues to improve.
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Continuing the adventures of the newest character in American sea fiction, Isaac Biggs of Marble head, Massachusetts, this second volume of the trilogy finds Isaac as Third Mate on the Salem privateer General Washington in February 1813. At the same time, his friends from the British frigate Orpheus and the Baltimore schooner Glory find berths on the American warship USS Constellation and, eventually, they wind up on the USS Chesapeake in Boston just in time for her disastrous meeting with HMS Shannon. Throughout the spring of 1813, Isaac and the General Washington roam the waters between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, taking prizes and harassing the British. When the American survivors of the Chesapeake/Shannon battle are confined in Melville Island Prison in Halifax, the General Washington and Isaac play an important role in securing their freedom.
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