by David Weber & John Ringo

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2001 by David Weber & John Ringo

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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ISBN: 0-671-31826-8

Cover art by Patrick Turner
Interior maps by John Ringo

First printing, August 2001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Weber, David, 1952–

March to the sea / by David Weber & John Ringo.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-671-31826-8
1. Princes—Fiction. 2. Life on other planets—Fiction. I. Ringo, John, 1963–
II. Title.

PS3573.E217 M35 2001
813'.54—dc21 2001025925
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America

For "Uncle Steve" Griswold, USMC,

The "barbarian" who taught me that people are always responsible for their own actions, but that sometimes good people have to take the responsibility for fixing other people's mistakes. You did . . . for thirty-one years. God Bless.

Dedicated to Charles Gonzalez:

The sort of person who would discuss quantum mechanics, dialects of Amazonian tribes and garroting German sentries with an impressionable twelve-year-old.

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