Rebels at sea : privateering in the American Revolution

Rebels at sea : privateering in the American Revolution

Privateering in the American Revolution

1st ed.

New York : Liveright Publishing Corp., a division of W. W. Norton & Co., 2022.

xxiv, 302 p., [8] colored p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

973.35 D658 2022

(OCoLC)1272855379

"The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, that truly revealed the new nation's character-above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. In Rebels at Sea, best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission, and contends that privateers, though often seen as profiteers at best and pirates at worst, were in fact critical to the Revolution's outcome. Armed with cannons, swivel guns, muskets, and pikes-as well as government documents granting them the right to seize enemy ships-thousands of privateers tormented the British on the broad Atlantic and in bays and harbors on both sides of the ocean ..."--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284) and index.
L2022M48

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