Rebels at sea : privateering in the American Revolution Eric Jay Dolin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolin, Eric Jay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations.

United States.

Privateering--United States--History--18th century.

Privateering.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 302 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Privateering in the American Revolution

Place of Publication:

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2022]

Summary:

"The best-selling 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 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. Abounding with tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters, Rebels at Sea presents the American Revolution as we have rarely seen it before"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Massachusetts first

Expanding the fight at sea

All in

A privateersman's life

The French connection

Privateering triumphs and tragedies

The lion roars

"Hell afloat"

The home front

A few more rounds.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line: James Forten portrait, 1818. Leon Gardiner collection of American Negro Historical Society records [ collection 0008]. Digital Library 151. Insert image #11.

ISBN:

9781631498251

1631498258

OCLC:

1272855379