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Plan of the city of Washington, 1800.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, 1796.
Hampton Roads in 1859.
West Point history department.
Maps of St.-Domingue and the Caribbean
Explored and settled areas of North America in 1800.
Boston, Mass., in 1772.
Boston, Mass., in 1814.
Charleston, South Carolina, in 1780.
Mobile, Alabama, in 1815.
New Orleans in 1798.
La Havana, Cuba, in 1790.
Selected Works
The Matty Graves novels
Book 1: No Quarter
Midshipman Matty Graves must choose between family and duty.
“Refreshingly cynical.”
—Jonathan Lunn
Book 2: The War of Knives
Acting-Lieutenant Matty Graves gets caught up in the Haitian Revolution in 1800. Mayhem ensues!
"[N]ever dull . . ."
—Madison Smartt Bell
Book 3: Peter Wicked
Matty seizes the opportunity to make a name and fortune for himself—even if it means destroying those closest to him.
"[U]nusual, if somewhat jaundiced . . ."
—
Library Journal
Errata
Errata
Errors after the fact
History
Lubber's Glossary
Seamen's terms in landsmen's language
Timeline
Haitian Timeline
Nautical info bits
Sailing distances around Haïti
How far it is from here to there, by sea, in English statute miles.
Officers' uniforms
Public domain stuff—I didn't write this.
Maps
Maps
Yep, still maps
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History of the Washington Navy Yard
History of Baltimore on Web Roots
Directoire headgear
Empire headgear
Costumer's Manifesto: Regency and Empire fashions
Project Gutenberg
War of 1812 (Theodore Roosevelt)
1812 and All That
Free online glossaries and dictionaries
Text-book of Seamanship (1834)
Wreck of H.M.S. Wager, 1741
Anglo-American folk songs
French sea songs
Cyclopaedia (1728)
Jack Aubrey's commands
U of Texas historical maps library
Stephen Decatur
NOAA charts
American Coast Pilot, 1796 edition (PDF)
American Coast Pilot, 1800 edition (PDF)
American Coast Pilot, 1822 edition
Sailing directions for Gulf Coast, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands, 1958
McBooks Press
Jeffersonianism and 19th Century American Maritime Defense Policy (PDF)
Sea flags
A guy what knows a lot about colonial Haiti
Maps
Places mentioned in the Matty Graves series.
North America in 1797.
The West Indies in 1774.
Leeward Islands. Detail from above map.
Le Cap Français, San Domingo, in the 18th century.