The Two Admirals is an 1842 nautical fiction novel by American author James Fenimore Cooper.
Set during the 18th century and exploring the British Royal Navy, Cooper wrote the novel out of encouragement of his English publisher, who recommended writing another sea novel.
[1] Cooper had originally intended to write a novel where ships were the main characters, though eventually decided not to.
[2] When republishing the novel in the 1860s, Cooper's daughter, Susan Fenimore Cooper, described the novel as "the least successful of his romances of the sea".
[3] The original manuscript for the novel is held by the Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia Library and contains 257 pages.