
"Decatur and Somers" recounts the intertwined lives and heroic exploits of two distinguished figures in the early United States Navy: Stephen Decatur and Richard Somers. Molly Elliot Seawell masterfully details their courageous service during the Barbary Wars and their significant...


Most of the Nautical fiction about the Age of Sail is written about the Royal Navy. while I have read and enjoyed most of it for the past 20 years, I have kept a sharp lookout for anything written about the American Navy in the 19th Century. The United States Navy didn't exist...