Sloop Of War

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For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete transformation for himself & his future. It was the year in which the American War of Independence changed to an all-out struggle for freedom from British rule
- & the year when Bolitho took command of the Sparrow, a small, fast & well-armed sloop of war.

As the pace of war increased, the Sparrow was called from one crisis to another
- & when the great fleets of Britain & France convened on the Chesapeake, Bolitho had to throw aside the early dreams of his first command to find maturity in a sea battle that might decide the fate of a whole continent.