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Title: The Dogwatches
Rating: M (Suitable for ages 16 and above)
Disclaimers: With the exception of historical figures, all names given in this story are fictional and any relation to actual persons, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Story summary: A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies, 1780.
Author's Note: Any factual errors that occur within are my own. The narrators will change from scene to scene, as this story is told primarily by the ship's Marines.

This is a re-issuing of the story, following substantial editing of the original piece.
Previous chapters: One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven

( Chapter Eight )

Title: The Dogwatches
Rating: M (Suitable for ages 16 and above)
Disclaimers: With the exception of historical figures, all names given in this story are fictional and any relation to actual persons, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Story summary: A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies/South Carolina, 1780.
Author's Note: Any factual errors that occur within are my own. The narrators will change from scene to scene, as this story is told primarily by the ship's Marines.

This is a re-issuing of the story, following substantial editing of the original piece.
Previous chapters: One | Two | Three | Four | Five

( Chapter Six )

Title: The Dogwatches
Rating: M (Suitable for ages 16 and above)
Disclaimers: With the exception of historical figures, all names given in this story are fictional and any relation to actual persons, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Story summary: A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies/South Carolina, 1780.
Author's Note: Any factual errors that occur within are my own. The narrators will change from scene to scene, as this story is told primarily by the ship's Marines.

This is a re-issuing of the story, following substantial editing of the original piece.
Previous chapters: One | Two | Three

( Chapter Four )

Title: The Dogwatches
Rating: M (Suitable for ages 16 and above)
Disclaimers: With the exception of historical figures, all names given in this story are fictional and any relation to actual persons, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Story summary: A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies/South Carolina, 1780.
Author's note: Any factual errors that occur within are my own. The narrators will change from scene to scene, as this story is told primarily by the ship's Marines.

This is a re-issuing of the story, following substantial editing of the original piece.
Previous chapters: One

( Chapter Two )

Title: Dice
Rating: K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above)
Disclaimers: Names given in this story are fictional and any relation to actual persons, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Original pen-date: 29 January 2011
Summary: A British prisoner gambles with the enemy. February 1778.
Author's Note: This is a response to a prompt solicited from lipton_tea.

( The story )

Title: Loyalty
Rating: K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above)
Disclaimers: Names given in this story are fictional and any relation to an actual person, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Original pen-date: 24 November 2010
Summary: A chance meeting of two countrymen aboard a prison hulk. May 1780.
Author's Note: The dialect contained herein is mostly the result of me winging it, but it seemed fitting. If I've gotten any of that wrong, I apologise. After the siege of Charleston, the American squadron under Commodore Abraham Whipple was captured. Included in this number were roughly two hundred Continental Marines. There are mentions of these American naval prisoners being accommodated aboard hulks in Charleston harbour. I do not know for certain if British Marines were employed as guards on these hulks so I am taking a bit of liberty with that. Interestingly, however, Continental Marines truly did have green coats!

( The story )

Title: The Enemy
Rating: K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above)
Disclaimers: Names given in this story are fictional and any relation to an actual person, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Original pen-date: 18 August 2010
Summary: A regiment of the Massachusetts Line assumes responsibility of a small prisoner of war camp. January 1777. (The continuing adventures of Strout and Leech.)
Author's Note: Written by request of alia_hildwyn and lipton_tea.

( The story )

Title: Stars
Rating: K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above)
Disclaimers: None
Original pen-date: 11 January 2010
Summary: The Massachusetts Line regroups after the battle of Long Island. August 1776. (A Strout and Leech adventure.)
Author's Note: There are probably some historical goofs in here and I apologise for them.

( The story )

Title: Rallying
Rating: K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above)
Disclaimers: None.
Original pen-date: 14 January 2009
Summary: After the victory at Trenton, the Massachusetts Line marches toward Princeton. (A Strout and Leech adventure.)
Author's Note: There are probably some historical goofs in here and I apologise for them.

( The story )

Title: Fighting Spirit
Rating: K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above)
Disclaimers: None
Original pen-date: 20 November 2008
Summary: The Massachusetts Line marches to New York. Spring 1776. (A Strout and Leech adventure.)
Author's Note: There are probably some historical goofs in here, but I don't have many relevant books here with me. Any discrepancies or inaccuracies are due to my relying almost exclusively on Internet sources.

This one is also a little short.

( The story )