Never more than seven ships, always underfunded and sometimes not funded at all...our little navy took the battle to the enemy and effectively turned the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of Texas.

Without her navy, Texas might never have won her independence, and certainly wouldn't have been able to keep it.

Yet most Texans know little or nothing about the Texas Navy. If you fall into that group, don't feel too bad. For some reason, Texas historians have rarely ventured out to sea.

So we decided it was high time that the men of the Texas Navy were allowed to raise their voices and tell their stories...in their own words.

We gathered every available first-hand account by the men of the Texas Navy and put them into a single volume.

There has never been a book like this. All hands are on deck to tell their stories.

Battles and wrecks. Mutineers and profiteers. Grogging and flogging. Raiding the Mexican coast and capturing prizes. The vain, mundane, and profane. Bravery, duty and above all, honor.

Here's what's inside:

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