MICHAEL G. LARAMIE is the author of King William’s War: The First Contest for North America, 1689–1697 (Westholme 2017), winner of the New York Society of Colonial Wars Annual Book Award, Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedos: Coastal North Carolina, 1861–1865 (Westholme 2020), and By Wind and Iron: Naval Campaigns in the Champlain Valley, 1665–1815 (Westholme 2014). He lives with his family in Arizona.