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Rebels at Sea - Privateering in the American Revolution (Hardcover)
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Rebels at Sea - Privateering in the American Revolution (Hardcover)
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The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the American
Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime
histories of the country'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 American 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 harbours on both sides of the ocean.
Abounding with tales of daring manoeuvers and deadly encounters,
Rebels at Sea presents the American Revolution as we have rarely
seen it before.
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