Cutler Family Chronicles

The 8th Cutler Family Chronicles novel is set in Massachusetts and the Far East in the early 1850s as the influx of opium into New England endangers the very fabric of America. Family loyalties, morals, and passions are woven into a plot that threatens to undo not only the prosperity of the seafaring Cutler family, but also those of American society.

Set to the formative years of the U.S. economy, Captain Richard Cutler commands the American steam vessel Suwannee to the distant land of New Zealand to establish a secure trade route to fruitful oversea markets and protection from opposing naval forces.

Credited with vividly recreating an early chapter in American history with his first novel, A Matter of Honor, William C. Hammond continues the seafaring adventures of the prominent Cutler family of Massachusetts. Set in the years following the American Revolution, this second novel offers an exciting look at the young republic at a time when America remained a weak nation with no navy to protect its prosperous merchant fleet from Barbary pirates or nations intent on crippling its shipping.

The seafaring adventures of the Cutler family continue in the years leading up to the War of 1812, as the life-and-death struggle between Great Britain and France catches the United States in a web of financial and political chaos and threatens the livelihood of the Cutlers and other New England shipping families.

Set primarily in the Mediterranean Sea during the First Barbary War (1801–1805), A Call To Arms offers the reader intriguing and often startling insights into a young republic's struggle to promote its principles of liberty, equality, and free trade in a world ravaged by the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and ruthless piracy in both the Mediterranean and Far Eastern waters.

The sixth volume in the award-winning series profiling the American perspective in the Age of Sail, No Sacrifice Too Great chronicles the swashbuckling adventures of the Cutler family as the United States takes on Great Britain in the War of 1812. Richard Cutler and his two sons, William and James, serve in the US Navy, weak in number of ships but strong in experience and fighting
-spirit. Battles in which the family participates include high seas drama between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, fleet engagements on Lake Erie and Lake Champlain, the siege of Baltimore, and the epic Battle of New Orleans.

The Power and the Glory is the third novel in the historical, nautical fiction series from William C. Hammond. It follows in the wake of A Matter of Honor and For Love of Country, and features the adventures...

The first volume in a series of maritime novels set in the early years of the United States, A Matter of Honor is a dramatic account of a young man's coming of age during the American Revolution. Introducing...