That's a very good question. You know, prior to that, I had written a book about the American Navy revolution. And then I went off, I went off and did a book about John Hancock. But somehow the sea always drew me back. And I realized I had ended my first book on naval in 1783. And I thought to myself, Gee, I wonder what happened after that, again, personal interests personally. So I began my inquiry and one of the great things about naval history and you certainly appreciate this Abby, as very fine naval historian, is the rich resources available. These men from women, but mostly men of his time, wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote, and the government kept records the government kept, the government kept records. So you have these voluminous, these voluminous volumes today, not when I was writing, but today, of course, a bunch of this has been digitized. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful opportunity to get young sauce. So here I was. Well, I was very curious now. So what happens when 1783? And shall we say at first I thought I'd go there, maybe 1812. And so I began the inquiry, I began to talk to publishers. And the publisher said, Why are you stopping in 1812? why not go to 1815? Okay, fine. So I then had my parameters roughly 1783 to 1815. And I began my exploration digging into the sources. Oh, it was delightful. My gosh, some of those guys, they were such rascals. I mean, when you when you read some of these letters, are the official letters, of course, that that are rather prosaic in so many ways than the one across some that are just absolutely outrageous, you know. And then the Commodore Morris, Commodore, by the an interesting man, takes his wife on board this ship into the Mediterranean, and behind his back, the sail is referred to as the Commodoress. So you know, you don't like the characters. But yes, many of them are rascals. But also, what struck me about these men? Is that how much they were in charge. You know, once you sailed out of Boston, the past race point, the end of Cape Cod, and you were at sea, there was no one to tell you what to do. There was no radio, there were no instant display none, none of that none of that. Once at sea, these men, these commanders were on their own. They had to make incredible decisions and later be called to account either, you know, applauded for them, I'll call them account. So that struck me as truly impressive. And I think that when you study the lives of these men and their ships, it's easy to be critical. And sometimes the criticism is well deserved. But one has to keep that in mind that these women are under extraordinary stress. And you have a crew of three 400 men down below. Not always the nicest guys in the world. Okay. These See, says some problems. And so it was to me an incredible laboratory again, back of Melville's Oaken box, an incredible, incredible place. We have all these men crowded together, trying to get along and sometimes not getting along, they kept on on a Commodore after this, what for the ship was a spacious accommodations. So that's what intrigued me about you. So it was the jack times the men, the foremost hands, as they would say, in the merchant brain. And the Congo is jack the offices in the after deck, and how they be, and so dangerous was they battle pirates, of course, in the conventional sense, the Quasi-War, which they fought against the French, never a real war down there in the Caribbean. And of course, then the Barbary corsairs, and I say corsairs because I want to be careful about that. I think that historically, they were not pirates. Pirates operate outside of the law. These Barbary corsairs were operating with inside they want to be sure but with inside the law, so they're not putting up pirates, the Barbary corsairs.