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The Raid on H.M.S. Vindicator
A Marine Adventure Novel by Anthony J. Marolda
Date -- To be released 2008
“Procyon Shadows H.M.S. Vindicator”
Cover painting by
Anthony J. Marolda
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The book is a marine adventure set at the
beginning of the Revolutionary War. It has been almost a year
since the start of the siege of Boston
by the revolutionary forces under General Washington. The rebels
secretly place several cannon captured from
Fort
Ticonderoga
onto
Dorchester
Heights
, overlooking the British fleet in
Boston
Harbor
. Fearing the loss of the fleet from the patriots' cannon found in a
superior position, the British commander, General Howe, pulls the fleet out of
Boston
, evacuating all of the troops and loyalists from the city. The
British have suffered their first major defeat at the hands of the
patriots.
Stung by the
"inferior"
colonial forces, the British mount a large scale invasion of the colonies
in mid-1776. Almost four hundred ships with troops and supplies set
out across the
Atlantic
. Preceding this massive force is a single, large, First-Rate,
man-o-war, the recently completed H.M.S. Vindicator. The mission of the newest and largest
war ship in the British fleet is, using its superior fire power, to
destroy the smaller war ships of the Colonial Navy defending the Northeast
coasts. And to wipe out the harbor fortifications in
Boston
,
New York
and
Philadelphia
in preparation for the troop landings.
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Almost a year earlier, a young, colonial merchant marine officer had been sent on a
covert mission
to England to learn about the Vindicator. He was employed by the
Chatham Dockyard where Vindicator was under construction. During the
course of his work, he overhears the Captain
describing the first mission of H.M.S. Vindicator and escapes back to the
Colonies to organize a raid to stop the Vindicator from its deadly
undertaking. Using the fishing schooner, Procyon, and the knowledge
and skills of some local fishermen
of the village of Annisquam in Massachusetts, the patriots employ stealth
and cunning to gain access to the H.M.S. Vindicator. The plans go
awry and the raiders are captured by the British. Will the massive
British ship now be able to complete its deadly mission?
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