Download or read book Captain Gideon Olmsted Connecticut Privateersman Revolutionary War written by Louis Frank Middlebrook and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of Gideon Olmsted written by Gideon Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privateers of the Revolution written by Donald Grady Shomette and published by Schiffer + ORM. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of the forgotten privateering war on the Jersey coast during the American Revolution Addresses the maritime conflict period 1775-1783 from both Patriot and Loyalist perspectives Reveals the hitherto untold account of the British “Death Ships” on which 11,000 died
Download or read book The Journal of Gideon Olmsted written by Gideon Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Olmsted Case written by M. Ruth Kelly and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equally important is that the Olmsted matter gives us a window into the world of ordinary citizens. Gideon Olmsted was a Revolutionary soldier, a privateer, and a merchant. He was victimized by the state of Pennsylvania, by an impotent federal government unable to enforce its own decrees, by jurisdictional disputes between government bodies, and by the machinations of partisan politicians." -- BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution 1775 1783 written by Henry Phelps Johnston and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the standard work on the subject, and it is literally crammed with genealogies of the 17th-century pioneers of the county, most of whom were of Dutch, or, to a lesser extent, British, origin.
Download or read book Two Revolutionary War Privateers written by William Packwood and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Connecticut naval merchants become privateers and make numerous voyages to the Caribbean to obtain wartime supplies (gunpowder, provisions, and armaments) to support the American Revolution.
Download or read book Diary of Captain Samuel Richards written by Captain Samuel Richards and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Connecticut captain in America's Revolutionary War, Samuel Richards lived through the carnage and deprivations that were the cost of freedom from England. His diary is important for its vivid descriptions of life in the ranks during battle, starvation, and the great events of his day. Along the way, he saw Washington and Lafayette, fought the British, lost friends, and wrote his experiences for a later date. This long out-of-print volume is available for the first time as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers. We have retained Captain Richards' quirky, inconsistent spelling and capitalization. Every memoir of the American Revolution provides us with another view of the war that created the United States. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Download or read book Biography by Americans 1658 1936 written by Edward H. O'Neill and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the most comprehensive bibliography of purely biographical material written by Americans. It covers every possible field of life but, by design, excludes autobiographies, diaries, and journals.
Download or read book History of Maritime Connecticut During the American Revolution 1775 1783 written by Louis Frank Middlebrook and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of Captain Samuel Richards written by Samuel Richards and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Connecticut captain in America's Revolutionary War, Samuel Richards lived through the carnage and deprivations that were the cost of freedom from England. His diary is important for its vivid descriptions of life in the ranks during battle, starvation, and the great events of his day.Along the way, he saw Washington and Lafayette, fought the British, lost friends, and wrote his experiences for a later date. We have retained Captain Richards' quirky, inconsistent spelling and capitalization.Every memoir of the American Revolution provides us with another view of the war that created the United States
Download or read book Revolutionary America 1763 1789 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ill. on lining papers. Includes index.
Download or read book Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution 1775 1783 written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Revolutionary War Privateers written by William T. Packwood and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Connecticut naval merchants become privateers and make numerous voyages to the Caribbean to obtain wartime supplies.
Download or read book Captains of the Privateers During the Revolutionary War written by John A. McManemin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebels at Sea Privateering in the American Revolution written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award A Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must-Read" Finalist for the New England Society Book Award Finalist for the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Book Award The bestselling 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 many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels 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, as they were called, were in fact critical to the American victory. Privateers were privately owned vessels, mostly refitted merchant ships, that were granted permission by the new government to seize British merchantmen and men of war. As Dolin stirringly demonstrates, at a time when the young Continental Navy numbered no more than about sixty vessels all told, privateers rushed to fill the gaps. Nearly 2,000 set sail over the course of the war, with tens of thousands of Americans serving on them and capturing some 1,800 British ships. Privateers came in all shapes and sizes, from twenty-five foot long whaleboats to full-rigged ships more than 100 feet long. Bristling with cannons, swivel guns, muskets, and pikes, they tormented their foes on the broad Atlantic and in bays and harbors on both sides of the ocean. The men who owned the ships, as well as their captains and crew, would divide the profits of a successful cruise—and suffer all the more if their ship was captured or sunk, with privateersmen facing hellish conditions on British prison hulks, where they were treated not as enemy combatants but as pirates. Some Americans viewed them similarly, as cynical opportunists whose only aim was loot. Yet Dolin shows that privateersmen were as patriotic as their fellow Americans, and moreover that they greatly contributed to the war’s success: diverting critical British resources to protecting their shipping, playing a key role in bringing France into the war on the side of the United States, providing much-needed supplies at home, and bolstering the new nation’s confidence that it might actually defeat the most powerful military force in the world. Creating an entirely new pantheon of Revolutionary heroes, Dolin reclaims such forgotten privateersmen as Captain Jonathan Haraden and Offin Boardman, putting their exploits, and sacrifices, at the very center of the conflict. Abounding in tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters, Rebels at Sea presents this nation’s first war as we have rarely seen it before.
Download or read book Connecticut s Revolutionary War Leaders written by North Callahan and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
