The Life of Silas Talbot: A Commodore in the Navy of the United States is a biography written by Henry Theodore Tuckerman and published in 1850. The book tells the story of Silas Talbot, a naval officer who served during the American Revolutionary War and the Quasi-War with France. Talbot was born in Rhode Island in 1751 and began his naval career as a privateer during the Revolution. He went on to serve in the Continental Navy and was eventually...