In 1776, the American rebel colonists were desperately in need of
arms and financial backing, and the Frenchman Pierre Augustin Caron
de Beaumarchais came rapidly to their aid. Radical dramatist,
business tycoon, and former spy, he was the ideal man to encourage
a revolution in the making, and he promptly set up a fictitious
shipping firm to supply and transport munitions to the Americans;
by September 1777 he had sent five million livres' worth of
supplies. American victories in three revolutionary battles owed
much to this one remarkable man's efforts. With its thriller-like
episodes, moments of intense drama, and equally high comedy,
"Figaro's Fleet" provides an entertaining insight into the "cloak
and dagger" financing of the first revolution of the modern world.
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