In By Force of Arms, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb's smuggling ship, the Judea, is destroyed by British soldiers, which results eventually in his and his friend Ezra Rumstick's impressment aboard an English man-o-war, HMS Icarus, commanded by the irresponsible and arrogant Lieutenant James Pendexter.
Virginia Stanton was born in 1758 and orphaned at a young age by the death of her mother, Lucy Stanton, and raised by her father, William Stanton, and their butler, Ebenezer Rogers.
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She is very brave and feels that she should be part of the action, a fact that is evident in the third Revolution book, The Continental Risque, when the Charlemagne is fighting a British man-o-war, and Isaac asks her to go below to protect her, and she stays on deck and shoots at the British sailors with a pistol instead.