The First Salute
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: June 6, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780345910929
Subjects: General; History / General; History - General History
First sentence: WHITE puffs of gun smoke over a turquoise sea followed by the boom of cannon rose from an unassuming fort on the diminutive Dutch island of St. Eustatius in the West Indies on November 16, 1776.