The Battle of Valcour Island: The Participants and Vessels of Benedict Arnold's 1776 Defense of Lake Champlain - Paperback

by Stephen Darley (Author)

The book provides new information about the Battle of Valcour Island which took place on Lake Champlain in October of 1776. It contains a biography of sixteen of the seventeen captains of the American vessels that were in the battle. No such comprehensive information has been published before. It contains a description of all of the American vessels in the battle as well as the story of how the first vessels of the American fleet were obtained and how the last group of vessels were destroyed or captured in 1777. In addition, the book includes first hand accounts from pension applications, journals, memoirs and letters of American participants and journals and letters of British participants. Finally, the book contains a never before published roster of 448 officers and men who participated in the battle on the Americn side.

Author Biography

Stephen Darley has a law degree from George Washington University and owned a real estate construction and development company from 1972 until he retired in 2009. Darley has a 40 year interest in Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution and has published a number of magazine articles about the Revolutionary War. Darley lives in North Haven, Connecticut and is a member of the North Haven Historical Society, New Haven Museum and Historical Society and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists.