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 manoeuvres and
deadly encounters, Rebels at Sea presents the American Revolution
as we have rarely seen it before.
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