Six Frigates – The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. By Ian W. Toll. (W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 2006, 561 pages, $28 hardbound). Toll examines the early history of the Navy and the country, through six battleships ordered built by President Washington in 1794. Three of the first officers to be commissioned to man them were Charles Stewart, Richard Somers and Stephen Decatur, three midshipmen would become bodacious, swashbuckling pirate fighters who would set the tone and style for all special op warriors.
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