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Spring 1802, and the Peace Treaty of Amiens, signed only a few weeks earlier, is already showing signs of collapse. Britain and France wrangle over the return of colonial possessions won and lost during their long, bloody war and in the little 64-gun Achates, Vice-Admiral Richard Bolitho sails for America and the Caribbean.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You would think that as Bolitho climbs the ranks of England's fighting men that his role in the fighting would diminish. Not so!