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Commodore Abraham Whipple - book signing/lecture

Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy: Privateer, Patriot, Pioneer (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archeaology) 

with author Dr. Sheldon Cohen

Abraham Whipple (1733-1819) commanded insurgents who destroyed HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay and helped direct the successful invasion of the Bahamas.  This little-known, yet intrepid and frequently successful Continental Navy officer contributed significantly to the War for Independence.  An esteemed officer of the fleet, he spent his last years in frontier Ohio where he was respected and appealed to younger generations as a 'Representative of the Revolution'.  Sheldon Cohen's biography of Whipple presents a look inside the life of a Continental Officer.