First to Fight

Why did Congress create the US Marine Corps?

Why did Congress create the US Navy?

What did these two valiant organizations undertake during the American Revolution and how did they work together?

Learn, in a captivating historical fiction form, the answers to these questions. Be a party to the debates of the early politicians and military leaders as they wrestled with these questions and came up with answers that changed the world.

Would you sacrifice your comfortable life of privilege to risk it daily in a cause larger than yourself? Samuel Nicholas did - and became the first commandant of the Marine Corps.

Would you give your personal fortune, the largest on the continent, to ransom the freedom of friends, neighbors, and strangers? Robert Morris did, and financed a new nation.

Enter the world of colonial America to share the risks and dangers of the early Americans who did these very things. They gambled their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, in a life-and-death struggle with the largest, most powerful empire the world had ever known.

PRAISE FOR FIRST TO FIGHT

Marine Corps veteran and dystopian author, L. Douglas Hogan wrote: "First to Fight was written with stunning attention to detail in a way that only David C. Perry could bring it. He managed to capture the true essence of the Corps and put it where it deserves to be; on the title!"

"Rich in detail and breathtaking in action."-Todd Coker, Lieutenant Colonel, US Marine Corps, Retired

"Meticulously researched, historically accurate and well written tale of the American Revolution and the operational birth of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps team. With David Perry's First To Fight, the reader steps back in time to meet the powerful personalities, little known patriot volunteers and their British opponents surrounding the 1775 birth of the United States Marine Corps in a Philadelphia tavern, the Continental Navy and the conduct of the first American naval expeditionary operation 'from the sea' against the British Colony of New Providence (Bahamas). An engaging and interesting read for all those interested in the history brought to life."-Timothy Hanifen, Major General, US Marine Corps, Retired