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Klappentext An 1899 account of the role of privateers in winning the American War of Independence and building the American Navy. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 1899! explores the significant role of American privateers during the Anglo-American wars of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Privateers provided essential reinforcements for the small American navy in attacking and capturing foreign merchant ships during this key period of maritime history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. The War of the Revolution: 1. Privateers and privateersmen; 2. Dangers peculiar to privateering; 3. Colonial privateers; 4. Beginning hostilities; 5. First two years; 6. Navy officers in privateers; 7. Captain Silas Talbot; 8. Rapid growth of privateering; 9. A boy privateersman; 10. The work of 1779; 11. Jonathan Haraden; 12. An escape from Old Mill Prison; 13. Cruise of Dr. Solomon Drowne; 14. Career of the General Washington; 15. Captain John Manly; 16. Closing years of the war; Part II. The War of 1812: 1. First ventures; 2. British licenses and revenue cutters; 3. Captains Maffitt and Shaler; 4. Privateers of Rhode Island; 5. Captain Thomas Boyle; 6. A distinguished privateersman; 7. Decatur-Dominica fight; 8. Southern privateers; 9. Career of the America; 10. A typical privateersman; 11. An escape from Gibraltar; 12. In British prisons; 13. The Prince de Neuchâtel; 14. Cruises of the Grand Turk; 15. Escape of the Ida; 16. Privateers of Salem; 17. Some typical cruises; 18. Privateers against privateers; 19. New York privateers; 20. Privateers versus packet ships; 21. Battles with the king's ships; 22. Privateers of Baltimore; 23. Guy R. Champlin; 24. Battle of Fayal; 24. Conclusion; Index.
