Nelsons exciting seafaring series continues. As cries for independence ring through the chambers of the Second Continental Congress, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb and his crew are called upon to engage the Royal Navy.Isaac Biddlecomb, now captain of the converted merchantman Charlemagne, a newly commissioned brig-of-war in the Continental Navy of 1776, is being pursued by his archenemy, HMS Glasgow. Through a series of clever yachting maneuvers, Biddlecomb eludes the larger enemy ship, impresses the love of his life, Virginia Stanton, daughter of his old mentor, and makes himself a hero. After a brief and somewhat tedious stay on shoreduring which the reader is treated to cameos of Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and other founding fathersthe captain and his ship join the fledgling Continental fleet and the salt breeze invigorates Nelsons tale as his hero sails through various adventures in the Bahamas.
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