Fighting Marines: Hardy's Challenge

by Perry Comer

The year is 1812 and newly commissioned First Lieutenant Thomas Hardy is ordered on patrol in the lawless region of East Florida. Spain still has claim to all of Florida, the British intend to re-take it, escaped slaves and the Seminoles want to create their own country and plantation owners and farmers want to be annexed to the United States. Hardy and his few marines are ordered into the middle to fight bastards, renegades and stop smugglers. He has enemies and spies on all sides as he hacks, cuts and fights his way through swamps and plantations. Near Twelve Mile Swamp, Captain Williams and is small group of Marines are attacked by a force of two hundred while escorting supplies. Captain Williams is wounded eight times and if not for Hardy’s daring intervention all would have perished. The Marines are surrounded and outnumbered three to one. It is up to Hardy to defend and defeat the forces arrayed against him. History records how East Florida and West Florida became independent nations before becoming a state in the Republic of the United States. There are heroes and villains, greedy men and patriots who fought and died. THE UNITED STATES MARINES played a pivotal role in the history of Florida and there was none so valiant as Captain John Williams.

147 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 25, 2019

Reviews

[Don · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good Idea Poorly Presented

Author needs to study English lit. Did marines in early nineteenth century really talk like the most condescending English teacher you had to suffer through in junior high?

[Phillip Mclaughlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Second in the series USMC and the coming of the war of 1812

Well done series of early ( post revolution) Marines stationed in Spanish Florida in 1812. trying to keep Spanish English, Seminoles, and renegades from unsettling the US border.
Thoroughly readable.

[William B. King · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disappointed

Fighting Marines is not Comer's best work. I found it read like a comic book. His work with sailing warships was superior.

[John Nino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ouhah! Marines

A very interesting look at the Marines of 1812. The stories of growth as men and hero’s of the American people. Well plotted and well written. Good story line.