Rocks and Shoals: The Seventh Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798646330650)

With the fall of Louisbourg in 1758, the French in North America were firmly on the back foot. Pitt's grand strategy for 1759 was to launch a three-pronged attack on Canada. One army would move north from Lake Champlain, and another smaller force would strike across the wilderness to Lake Ontario and French-held Fort Niagara. A third, under Admiral Saunders and General Wolfe, would sail up the Saint Lawrence, where no battle fleet had ever been, and capture Quebec.Captain Edward Carlisle sails ahead of the battle fleet to find a way through the legendary dangers of the Saint Lawrence River. An unknown sailing master assists him; James Cook has a talent for surveying and cartography and will achieve immortality in later years.There are rocks and shoals aplenty before Carlisle and his frigate Medina are caught up in the near-fatal indecision of the summer when General Wolfe tastes the bitterness of early setbacks.Rocks and Shoals is the seventh of the Carlisle & Holbrooke naval adventures. The series follows Carlisle and his prot g George Holbrooke, through the Seven Years War and into the period of turbulent relations between Britain and her American colonies in the 1760s.

Author: Chris Durbin
ISBN-10: 8646330656
ISBN-13: 9798646330650
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.75d