Author: Reuben Elmore StiversPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Privateers & Volunteers
Author: Reuben Elmore StiversPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Privateering
Author: Faye KertPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421417472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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.
American Privateers of the Revolutionary War
Author: Angus KonstamPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472836324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
During the American War of Independence (1775–83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results. Eventually though, American shipyards began to turn out specially-converted ships, while later still, the first purpose-built privateers entered the fray. These American privateers seized more than 600 British merchant ships over the course of the war, capturing thousands of British seamen. Indeed, Jeremiah O'Brien's privateer Unity fought the first sea engagement of the Revolutionary War in the Battle of Machias of 1775, managing to capture a British armed schooner with just 40 men, their guns, axes and pitchforks, and the words 'Surrender to America'. By the end of the war, some of the largest American privateers could venture as far as the British Isles, and were more powerful than most contemporary warships in the fledgling US Navy. A small number of Loyalist privateers also put to sea during the war, and preyed on the shipping of their rebel countrymen. Packed with fascinating insights into the age of privateers, this book traces the development of these remarkable ships, and explains how they made such a significant contribution to the American Revolutionary War.
Vanity Fair
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A periodical in part famous for the cartoon portraits of politicians and public figures. These were mainly by "Spy" (i.e. Sir Leslie Ward) and "Ape" (i.e. Carlo Pellegrini).
A History of American Privateers
Author: Edgar Stanton MaclayPublisher: Digital Antiquaria
ISBN: 1580573312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Fully printable, fully searchable. Illustrated.
The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Texas Privateer
Author: Chris ClearmanPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435750764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Historical Fiction Nautical
The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences
Author: James Brown ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Author: John Debrett