CAPT Marc Liebman, USN (Ret.)
by CAPT Marc Liebman, USN (Ret.)
Author, Speaker at 2019 National Congress - Boston, Massachusetts
“Way back in November 2018 I started posting interesting entries on my blog about the Continental Navy and the American Revolution. By June 2020, there were 50+ with more added each week.
They are based on my research as I wrote and edited the first draft of Raider of the Scottish Coast, which should be published by July 2020 as well as the follow on books in the five-book series about two officers, one in the Continental Navy and the other in the Royal Navy.
The stories take place between the American Revolution and end in the War of 1812 . They all focus on little known facts or events that don’t make it into most history books. One of the first posts is about the first map of the Gulf Stream. The cartographer called it the Gulph Stream, and his name is Benjamin Franklin. His chart was based on input from Colonial fisherman and merchant captains. He showed it to his employer - Royal Mail - and the Royal Navy, and both dismissed it as 'unreliable information from American fisherman' despite the fact that American merchant seaman using it need two weeks less to cross the Atlantic than their British counterparts.”
NOTE: Raider of the Scottish Coast should be out around the end of June 2020. The first draft of the second novel, Carronade, that ends with the end of the American Revolution, is almost complete. Book three, Fight We Shall, covers the Quasi War with the French and the Barbary War. The final book is Powder & Shot, and it takes place during part of the War of 1812.
