Download or read book The Privateering Stroke written by Capt Michael H. Rutstein and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the US Navy's outstanding performance in single-ship engagements remains a source of national pride, those victories did not change the course of the war one iota. Had Constitution defeated a dozen British frigates, the thousand-ship Royal Navy would still have blockaded our coasts, strangled our commerce, bottled up our warships, and hunted down those that escaped. Even her former commander, Tyrone Martin, conceded that Constitution's victories were “no more than pin pricks” that “had no direct effect on the course of the war.” The most important campaigns of the war were not those of the Great Lakes, the Niagara frontier, the Chesapeake, or New Orleans. They were the Royal Navy's blockade of the American coast, and America's privateering campaign against British trade. As Faye Kert emphasized, it was “economic pressure — not decisive military or fleet actions — [that] finally brought the war to an end.” The British blockade devastated the American economy. The coasting trade — carrying goods up and down the coast in small schooners and sloops — became so dangerous that merchants were reduced to hauling goods by wagon, even though it “took ten times longer and cost a hundred times more.” Foreign imports declined dramatically. Deprived of customs duties, the United States government was in dire straits by the end of 1814. Had the conflict continued, the nation would have been incapable of defending itself without a central bank, new taxes, and conscription. Meanwhile, America's privateers were waging a highly effective war against British trade. They captured an estimated 2,000 prizes worth $40 million, sent insurance rates to unprecedented levels, and drove up prices at a time when Britain's economy was groaning under the strain of two decades of warfare. The British public was outraged; merchants bombarded the government with protests and appeals. With the United States incapable of maintaining the initiative in Canada, privateering became the nation's last, best, and only offensive weapon. Henry Adams stated flatly that “the privateers contributed more than the regular navy to bring about a disposition for peace in the British classes most responsible for the war.” The intention of this book is to examine the American privateering campaign as waged from Salem, Massachusetts. Salem was in many ways representative of the nation as a whole. Deeply divided over politics and the war, Salem was home to both Republicans and Federalists, privateers and smugglers. Massachusetts led the nation in outfitting privateers and Salem sent out 43 cruisers, ranging from 300-ton ships owned by merchant princes to open boats manned by unemployed sailors. Her privateers roamed the Atlantic from the North Sea to the coast of Brazil — and also patrolled the harbors of Maine and Massachusetts, searching out smugglers.The privateers whose careers are covered in this book ran the gamut from scintillating success to abject failure. Here are tales of heroism and cowardice, generosity and greed, astonishing good fortune and deep personal tragedy. By gathering these tales together in one work for the first time, and attempting to quantify their successes and failures, it is hoped that some light will be thrown on the critical contribution of America's privateers. The men who sailed from Salem deserve their due for bringing the war home to Great Britain, and enabling their country to make peace with honor.
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 A Bold Stroke at Sea Or Ralph s Free Privateer written by Beverley Kennon and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enemies of All written by Richard Blakemore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire. The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined by one historical moment: the period from the 1660s to the 1730s, the so-called "golden age of piracy." A groundbreaking history of pirates, Enemies of All combines narrative adventure with deeply researched analysis, engrossing readers in the rise of piracy in the later seventeenth century, the debates about piracy in contemporary law and popular media, as well as the imperial efforts to suppress piracy in the early eighteenth century. The Caribbean and American colonies of Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands—where piracy surged across these decades—are the main theater for Enemies of All, but this is a global story. Evoking London, Paris, and Amsterdam, Curaçao, Port Royal, Tortuga, and Charleston, the narrative takes readers, too, from Ireland and the Mediterranean to Madagascar and India, from the Arabian Gulf to the Pacific Ocean. Familiar characters like Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, Bonny and Read, Henry Every, and Captain Kidd all feature here, but so too will the less well-known figures from the history of piracy, their crew-members, shipmates, and their confederates ashore; the men and women whose transatlantic lives were bound up with the rise and fall of piracy. Transforming how readers understand the history of pirates, Enemies of All presents not only the historical evidence but, more importantly, explains the consequences of piracy's unique influence on colonialism and European imperial ambitions.
Download or read book Bootleg The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry written by Clinton Heylin and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing account of the record industry's worst nightmare. In the summer of 1969, Great White Wonder, a collection of unreleased Bob Dylan recordings appeared in Los Angeles. It was the first rock bootleg and it spawned an entire industry dedicated to making unofficial recordings available to true fans. Bootleg! tells the whole fascinating saga, from its underground infancy through the CD 'protection gap' era, when its legal status threatened the major labels' monopoly, to the explosion of trading via Napster and Gnutella on MP-3 files. Clinton Heylin provides a highly readable account of the busts, the defeats and victories in court; the personalities – many interviewed for the first time for this book. This classic history has now been updated and revised to include today's digital era and the emergence of a whole new bootleg culture.
Download or read book The Privateer written by Danielle Thorne and published by Desert Breeze Publishing In. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bootleg written by Clinton Heylin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heylin's secret history of the covert culture of "bootlegging" digs into many previously uncovered areas of this complex and completely underground music industry. "(An) unholy mix of consumerism, conspiracy, fetishism and felony" (David Dalton) that "methodically punctures each and every record industry argument against bootlegging, while acknowledging that bootleggers themselves are often without the purest motives". (Los Angeles Reader). Illustrations.
Download or read book Privateers and Privateering written by Edward Phillips Statham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of eighteenth-century privateers, published in 1910 at the height of Britain's naval arms race with Germany.
Download or read book Jolly Roger written by Patrick Pringle and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating study of 17th- and 18th-century piracy finds the lore about Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Anne Bonney, and other marauders largely overblown. "Highly entertaining and well-documented." — The New York Times. 35 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Pirates of Virginia written by Mark P. Donnelly and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore.
Download or read book The privateer captain by Waters written by William Russell (miscellaneous writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First American Army written by Bruce Chadwick Chadwick and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army. With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what it meant to face brutal winters, starvation, terrible homesickness and to go into battle against the much-vaunted British regulars and their deadly Hessian mercenaries. The reader lives through the experiences of those terrible and heroic times when a fifteen-year-old fifer survived the Battle of Bunker Hill, when Private Josiah Atkins escaped unscathed from the bloody battles in New York and when a doctor and a minister shared the misery of the wounded and dying. These intertwining stories are drawn from their letters and never-before-quoted journals found in the libraries belonging to the camps where Washington quartered his troops during those desperate years.
Download or read book The Prince and the Privateer written by E R Bryant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something as beautiful as love can never be wrong. Love in the 1760's between John Thomas and Bryon O'Neil is hard to admit. Yet when it blooms, it's deep enough to last forever.
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 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 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 Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony written by George Francis Dow and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture of some phases of life in the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is presented in the following pages. It follows many of the every day happenings, the manners and customs of daily life. Few realize how modern are the furnishings and comforts of our present-day houses and how different was the home life of our ancestors. Chairs were unknown in ordinary English households until a generation or so before the sailing of the Mayflower. Hats were worn at meals and the use of table forks did not become general until the last of the 1600s. Food was placed in the mouth with the knife or the fingers. This is a collection of source materials, somewhat digested, rather than a comprehensive, well-balanced narrative of daily life in the Colony. Contents: Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony The Voyage To Massachusetts Their Early Shelters and Later Dwellings How They Furnished Their Houses Counterpanes and Coverlets Concerning Their Apparel Pewter in the Early Days The Farmhouse and the Farmer Manners and Customs Sports and Games Trades and Manufactures Concerning Shipping and Trade From Wampum To Paper Money Herb Tea and the Doctor Crimes and Punishments
