no manuscript,no book ideas, no book requests I received the Fort as a Christmas gift I want to share with you part of my tie to the giver of course, there is the revolutionary war story line in and around Boston and I can relate to almost all of the the cities, towns, and even streets called out but, perhaps more than you could have imagined, the area in the eastern townships of Massachusetts [now Maine] around the Majabigwaduce river and the peninsula upon which the fort is being constructed [I am only on chap 3, so I cannot tell you what happens later] brings back some real memories 24-1/2 years ago three of us chartered sail boats [3 boats; each with 4 to 6 crew] and sailed in this area its now the Bagaduce river and the settlement is Castine, home of the Maine maritime academy on the nite of July 28, we rafted up and celebrated Peggy’s 50th with champagne on anchorage offshore of Castine so when, in the book, when the battle starts, the picture in my mind will be of gentler times having now finished the book, I must say you have crafted a masterful tale you have taken the shell of a story gleaned from the various letters, diaries,and proclamations from the summer of 1779 and later and filled in with living people, feelings, and tragedy well done with the very vivid description of the effects of war upon the human body, I wonder if this book should be mandatory reading for the USA military brass esp those who sit in air conditioned offices in south Florida and direct the drones, the bombing, the attacks, and the killing in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan if one is going to kill the enemy, they at least ought to be able to see them a nit piq in your notes on names, you call out Townsend and now being Bucks Harbor I suggest that Bucks Harbor is much further down east nearly at the ME-Canada border rather, Townsend is present day Boothbay after the fleet assembled at Townsend [pg 95] they sailed eastward [pg 103] until twilight [pg 108] when they turned into the mouth of the Penobscot River a little hard to do from Bucks Harbor indeed, a bit of Wikipedia research confirms Townsend as Boothbay Jack Roll, Winchester, ma