Download or read book Privateers and Privateering Classic Reprint written by E. P. Statham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Privateers and Privateering A few words of explanation are necessary as to the pretension and scope of this volume. It does not pretend to be a history of privateering; the subject is an immense one, teeming with technicalities, legal and nautical; interesting, indeed, to the student of history, and never comprehensively treated hitherto, as far as the present author is aware, in any single work. The present object is not, however, to provide a work of reference, but rather a collection of true stories of privateering incidents and heroes of what the French term la course and as such it is hoped that it will find favour with a large number of readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution Classic Reprint written by Gardner Weld Allen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution In the same reign letters of marque and reprisal against the inhabitants of Genoa were issued to a num ber of London Merchants. The document presents in detail the conditions and reasons involved and illus trates the forms used at that period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of American Privateers Classic Reprint written by Edgar Stanton Maclay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of American Privateers In his History of the United States Navy the author endeavored to show that our maritime forces were a powerful factor not only in attain ing American independence, but in maintaining it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Privateers and Privateering written by Edward Phillips Statham and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privateers and Privateering by Edward Phillips Statham is about sailors on pirate ships aiming to attack enemy shipping. This book talks about lesser-heard-of Scottish, French, and American pirates. Excerpt: "The privateersman, scouring the seas in his swift, rakish craft, plundering the merchant vessels of the enemy, and occasionally engaging in a desperate encounter with an opponent of his own class..."
Download or read book Instructions for Privateers Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Instructions for Privateers No person or persons within Our dominions are permitted to act as privateer without being furnished with a lawful commission for this purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book PRIVATEERS AND PRIVATEERING written by E. P. STATHAM and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privateer Ships and Sailors written by Howard M. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Privateers Classic Reprint written by H. B. Marriott Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Privateers The wind by this time had risen to a petty gale, and came over the brow Of the cliffs from the sea with considerable force. The blue sea was aglitter with foam-heads, and in the dim haze Of the horizon one seemed to discern, or imagine, the mass Of the adjacent continent. Sea-birds cried and ew 'twixt the cliff and the water, and a small steamer ploughed heavily across the middle distance, rounding the Island from Shanklin or Ventnor. I made these Observations with a mind pleasantly and idly occupied, and then I turned and saw Miss Lovell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Privateering written by Faye Kert and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to tell the tale of the War of 1812 from the privateers’ perspective. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award of the North American Society for Oceanic History During the War of 1812, most clashes on the high seas involved privately owned merchant ships, not official naval vessels. Licensed by their home governments and considered key weapons of maritime warfare, these ships were authorized to attack and seize enemy traders. Once the prizes were legally condemned by a prize court, the privateers could sell off ships and cargo and pocket the proceeds. Because only a handful of ship-to-ship engagements occurred between the Royal Navy and the United States Navy, it was really the privateers who fought—and won—the war at sea. In Privateering, Faye M. Kert introduces readers to U.S. and Atlantic Canadian privateers who sailed those skirmishing ships, describing both the rare captains who made money and the more common ones who lost it. Some privateers survived numerous engagements and returned to their pre-war lives; others perished under violent circumstances. Kert demonstrates how the romantic image of pirates and privateers came to obscure the dangerous and bloody reality of private armed warfare. Building on two decades of research, Privateering places the story of private armed warfare within the overall context of the War of 1812. Kert highlights the economic, strategic, social, and political impact of privateering on both sides and explains why its toll on normal shipping helped convince the British that the war had grown too costly. Fascinating, unfamiliar, and full of surprises, this book will appeal to historians and general readers alike.
Download or read book Beverly Privateers in the American Revolution Classic Reprint written by Octavius Thorndike Howe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beverly Privateers in the American Revolution At the opening of the War of the Revolution Beverly numbered about 3000 inhabitants. Its sea coast extended for six miles along the north shore in alternate sections of rocky point and sandy beach. Back from the shore line, from Manchester on the east to Wenham on the north and Danvers on the west, the land, broken and rolling, was dotted with farms and partly covered with pine woods. The soil was fairly fertile for New England and watered by numerous brooks. The inhabitants were farmers tilling their own farms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of American Privateers written by Edgar Stanton Maclay and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A British Privateer in the American Revolution Classic Reprint written by Henry R. Howland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A British Privateer in the American Revolution Vengeance dropped anchor in the Savannah river and ten days later letters to New York told of the condition of her affairs which were not wholly to the Captain's liking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of American Privateers written by Edgar Stanton Maclay and published by Ayer Company Pub. This book was released on 1899 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Log of a Halifax Privateer Classic Reprint written by Archibald Macmechan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Log of a Halifax Privateer A century after, a curious generation ap pointed a commission which broke these seals; and now anyone may read therein, - if he be skilled in paleography, - and patient. The ink is faded, and the straggling writing and frequent blots tell their own tale of the good ship labouring in the heavy seas, as the painful quill of the sailor scribe slowly traced these pages. As one deciphers the meagre entries, an obscure and forgotten chapter in our history is opened to his view; but though obscure and forgotten, it'is both significant and typical. Up to the present time, privateering, though a large part of naval warfare and a legitimate form of mercantile speculation, has remained unrecorded. Logs and other sources of information were not given to the public; it was to the interest of all concerned to keep them strictly private. These tattered pages can tell a remote and peaceful generation what privateering really was. The old log-book has another interest. It carries the mind back to the great struggle of the Seven Years War, the struggle that gave scope to the genius of Pitt, of Wolfe, of Carlyle's Frederick, - the struggle which grew from a skirmish on the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Privateer Vol 1 of 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Privateer, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale of the Sea And thus it was with us Elke Summer Voyagers on a quiet sea, r We on the deck our varying parlaunce held; Or gave the light jest to the passing winde Or on the snnnie billowes careleslie Gazed as they kist and pa1 ted or convaied, In gentle whispers to our Mistresse' eare, Fond thoughts that Fanc1e bred of Idlenesss; While underneathe the rapid tyde of tyme Flowed brightelye on to miserable aims And moste unhearde-of yssues. - moribunde Poem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Privateers and Privateering written by E. P. Statham and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Privateers and Privateering by E. P. Statham
Download or read book Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne written by Woodes Rogers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne: Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner Shuter Esq., Sir John Hawkins, Kt. John Romsey, Esq., Capt. Philip Freak, Mr. James Hollidge, Francis Rogers, Thomas Goldney. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
