Your cart is currently empty!
Tag: Nat Philbrick
Raising the Spitfire
Nautical Archeologist Art Cohn recommends in a new book a plan that would raise Benedict Arnold’s Revolutionary War gunboat, Spitfire, from the bottom of Lake Champlain. The multi-year, multi-million dollar recommendation would preserve the historic gunboat over several years at a Lake Champlain Maritime Museum conservation lab with plans to then make the gunboat the…
Benedict Arnold: Hero or Villain
A new book looks at Benedict Arnold’s heroics on Lake Champlain during the Battle of Valcour in 1776 that saved America from a British invasion that historians believe would have quashed the rebellion and ended the war in defeat for America. So what led Arnold, the hero of that critical battle, to become a traitor?…
