Christian McBurney is author of Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade, Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott and The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation in the Revolutionary War . He is president of the George Washington American Revolution Round Table of the District of Columbia and manages the online journal, Small State, Big History , devoted to the history of Rhode Island.