The Silent Revolutionary: David Bushnell’s Turtle and the Dawn of Submarine Warfare
By Eliza McGraw History Correspondent In the early morning hours of September 7, 1776, the dark, choppy waters of New York Harbor concealed a secret that would eventually change the course of naval history. Beneath the waves, encased in a cramped, acorn-shaped vessel of oak and iron, a lone Continental Army sergeant named Ezra Lee […]

