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Author : Howard M. Chapin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Privateering in King Georges̕ War, 1739-1748 written by Howard M. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard M. Chapin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Rhode Island Privateers in King George's War, 1739-1748 written by Howard M. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl E. Swanson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Predators and Prizes written by Carl E. Swanson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role British colonial privateering played during the wars of the mid-18th century, and provides a reinterpretation of American entrepreneurial warfare at sea against the shipping of Spain and France during King George's War. Swanson places privateering in its historical context and shows how it had an important impact on Atlantic commerce. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Faye Kert
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417472
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Privateering written by Faye Kert and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to tell the tale of the War of 1812 from the privateers’ perspective. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award of the North American Society for Oceanic History During the War of 1812, most clashes on the high seas involved privately owned merchant ships, not official naval vessels. Licensed by their home governments and considered key weapons of maritime warfare, these ships were authorized to attack and seize enemy traders. Once the prizes were legally condemned by a prize court, the privateers could sell off ships and cargo and pocket the proceeds. Because only a handful of ship-to-ship engagements occurred between the Royal Navy and the United States Navy, it was really the privateers who fought—and won—the war at sea. In Privateering, Faye M. Kert introduces readers to U.S. and Atlantic Canadian privateers who sailed those skirmishing ships, describing both the rare captains who made money and the more common ones who lost it. Some privateers survived numerous engagements and returned to their pre-war lives; others perished under violent circumstances. Kert demonstrates how the romantic image of pirates and privateers came to obscure the dangerous and bloody reality of private armed warfare. Building on two decades of research, Privateering places the story of private armed warfare within the overall context of the War of 1812. Kert highlights the economic, strategic, social, and political impact of privateering on both sides and explains why its toll on normal shipping helped convince the British that the war had grown too costly. Fascinating, unfamiliar, and full of surprises, this book will appeal to historians and general readers alike.
Author : Howard M. Chapin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bermuda Privateers, 1739-1748 written by Howard M. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631498266
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award A Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must-Read" Finalist for the New England Society Book Award Finalist for the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Book Award The bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels 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, as they were called, were in fact critical to the American victory. Privateers were privately owned vessels, mostly refitted merchant ships, that were granted permission by the new government to seize British merchantmen and men of war. As Dolin stirringly demonstrates, at a time when the young Continental Navy numbered no more than about sixty vessels all told, privateers rushed to fill the gaps. Nearly 2,000 set sail over the course of the war, with tens of thousands of Americans serving on them and capturing some 1,800 British ships. Privateers came in all shapes and sizes, from twenty-five foot long whaleboats to full-rigged ships more than 100 feet long. Bristling with cannons, swivel guns, muskets, and pikes, they tormented their foes on the broad Atlantic and in bays and harbors on both sides of the ocean. The men who owned the ships, as well as their captains and crew, would divide the profits of a successful cruise—and suffer all the more if their ship was captured or sunk, with privateersmen facing hellish conditions on British prison hulks, where they were treated not as enemy combatants but as pirates. Some Americans viewed them similarly, as cynical opportunists whose only aim was loot. Yet Dolin shows that privateersmen were as patriotic as their fellow Americans, and moreover that they greatly contributed to the war’s success: diverting critical British resources to protecting their shipping, playing a key role in bringing France into the war on the side of the United States, providing much-needed supplies at home, and bolstering the new nation’s confidence that it might actually defeat the most powerful military force in the world. Creating an entirely new pantheon of Revolutionary heroes, Dolin reclaims such forgotten privateersmen as Captain Jonathan Haraden and Offin Boardman, putting their exploits, and sacrifices, at the very center of the conflict. Abounding in tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters, Rebels at Sea presents this nation’s first war as we have rarely seen it before.
Author : Kylie A. Hulbert
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820368466
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Untold War at Sea written by Kylie A. Hulbert and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts upon the waves played a critical role in European and Anglo-American conflicts throughout the eighteenth century. Yet the oft-told narrative of the American Revolution tends to focus on battles on American soil or the debates and decisions of the Continental Congress. The Untold War at Sea is the first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and center. Kylie A. Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases. This study forces a reconsideration of the role privateers played in the conflict and challenges their place in the accepted popular narrative of the Revolution. Despite their controversial tactics, Hulbert illustrates that privateers merit a place alongside minutemen, Continental soldiers, and the sailors of the fledgling American navy. This book offers a redefinition of who fought in the war and how their contributions were measured. The process of revolution and winning independence was global in nature, and privateers operated at its core.
Author : Roger Marsters
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0887806449
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Bold Privateers written by Roger Marsters and published by Formac Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold Privateers is a collection of fascinating stories of the era's notorious privateers. It recalls the exploits of privateer captains, their fortunes and failures, reveals the importance of booty hunting during war.
Author : Julie Anne Sweet
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820326757
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Negotiating for Georgia written by Julie Anne Sweet and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Sweet focuses on negotiations between James Oglethorpe, the English leader, and Tomochichi, the Lower Creek representative, over issues of trade, land, and military support, she also looks at other individuals and groups who played a role in British-Creek interactions during this period: British traders; missionaries, including John Wesley and George Whitefield; the Salzburgers of Ebenezer; interpreters such as Mary Musgrove; the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees; British colonists from South Carolina; and Spanish and French forces who vied with the Georgia settlers for land, trading rights, and Indian support.
Author : Jerry Sweeney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429722931
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book A Handbook Of American Military History written by Jerry Sweeney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique reference work covers the military history of the United States from the Revolution to the Gulf War. The Handbook of American Military History is comprehensive, easy to use, and supplies essential information on the social, technological, political, tactical, and strategic developments that have affected the evolution of the U.S.
Author : Julian Gwyn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773501703
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Enterprising Admiral written by Julian Gwyn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1974 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Naval War of 1812: 1812 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Law Hatcher
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781593312992
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Researching Your Colonial New England Ancestors written by Patricia Law Hatcher and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the early colonists came to America, they were braving a new world, with new wonders and difficulties. Family historians beginning the search for their ancestors from this period run into a similar adventure, as research in the colonial period presents a number of exciting challenges that genealogists may not have experienced before. This book is the key to facing those challenges. This new book, Researching Your Colonial New England Ancestors, leads genealogists to a time when their forebears were under the rule of the English crown, blazing their way in that uncharted territory. Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, provides a rich image of the world in which those ancestors lived and details the records they left behind. With this book in hand, family historians will be ready to embark on a journey of their own, into the unexplored lines of their colonial past.
Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781593312770
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)
Download or read book The Source written by Loretto Dennis Szucs and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""
Author : Benjamin Quarles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838330
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Negro in the American Revolution written by Benjamin Quarles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the first time the diplomatic repercussions created by the British evacuation of African Americans at the close of the war. The compelling narrative brings the Revolution to life by portraying those tumultuous years as experienced by Americans at all levels of society. In an introduction, Gary B. Nash traces the evolution of scholarship on African Americans in the American Revolution from its early roots with William C. Nell to this groundbreaking study. Quarles's work not only reshaped our thinking about the black revolutionary experience but also invigorated the study of black history as we know it today. Thad W. Tate, in a foreword, pays tribute to the importance of this work and explains its continuing relevance.
Author : John Viele
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561646458
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)
Download or read book True Stories of the Perilous Straits written by John Viele and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Straits of Florida is a 110-mile sea passage between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean bordered on the northern side by the Florida Keys and the Florida Reef. In its waters, along the reef, and on desolate keys, thousands of men and women have died in shipwrecks, attacks by natives, sea battles, and pirate boardings. Few of their stories have survived, but those that have tell gripping tales of their struggles against the perils of the sea and the onslaughts of men. This book presents a selection of such stories during the age of sail from the time Spanish navigators discovered the Straits to the end of the Second Seminole War in 1842. Excerpted from ships' logs, captains' diaries, court-martial transcripts, and newspaper accounts, the stories in this volume—a companion to The Florida Keys, Volume 1: A History of the Pioneers—will make you glad you live in a modern world. Read harrowing tales of the cruelty and torture inflicted on mariners at the hands of bloodthirsty pirates; of pistol and cannon battles between merchant ships and wayward privateers; and of the hardships endured by some of Florida's earliest settlers. Sprinkled with hand-drawn illustrations, photographs, and maps depicting the lay of the land during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book presents a scholarly, historically accurate account of life on the Keys and in the perilous Straits of Florida during the age of sail. An index and extensive bibliography are included. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Author : Joyce Elizabeth Harman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817351205
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732–1763 written by Joyce Elizabeth Harman and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important study of the First Spanish Period in Florida’s history Trade and Privateering examines the illegal yet highly profitable and mutually beneficial trade between Spanish Florida and the English colonies on the eastern seaboard in the mid-18th century. In St. Augustine, the arrival of subsidies from Spain was erratic, causing shortages of food and supplies, so authorities ignored the restrictions on trade with foreign colonies and welcomed British goods. Likewise, the British colonists sought Spanish products from Florida, especially oranges. But when England and Spain became declared enemies in the War of Jenkins’ Ear and the French and Indian Wars, this tacit trade arrangement was threatened, and the result was a rise of privateering in the region. Rather than do without Spanish goods, the English began to attack and capture Spanish vessels with their cargoes at sea. Likewise, the Spaniards resorted to privateering as a means of steadily supplying the Florida colony. Harman concludes that, both willingly and unwillingly, the English colonies helped their Spanish neighbor to sustain its position in the Southeast.
