If you're looking for a book that gives you a great insight into naval service during the American Revolutionary War, and for that matter the newly founded United States, I think you'll find this book ideal. Going through Revolutionary War Pension Archives I picked out, what I felt, were interesting and detailed stories of our forefathers' efforts in fighting that war on the naval front. As you read these sailors and marines detailed stories in their own words, as they told them to the court in order to obtain pension benefits, I think you will be amazed at the service these men were engaging in.