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Larrie D. Ferreiro

Biography

Larrie D. Ferreiro

Larrie D. Ferreiro received his PhD in the History of Science and Technology from Imperial College London. He teaches history and engineering at George Mason University in Virginia and the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He has served for over 35 years in the US Navy, US Coast Guard and Department of Defense, and was an exchange engineer in the French Navy. He is the author of MEASURE OF THE EARTH: THE ENLIGHTENMENT EXPEDITION THAT RESHAPED OUR WORLD and   SHIPS AND SCIENCE: THE BIRTH OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, 1600-1800  . He lives with his wife and their sons in Virginia.

Larrie D. Ferreiro

Books by Larrie D. Ferreiro

Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
by Larrie D. Ferreiro - History, Military, Nonfiction

In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. In his detailed accounts Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have succeeded. Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats, merchants, soldiers and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, BROTHERS AT ARMS reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.