This title explores the ships and history of the enterprising American patriots who fought the Royal Navy as privateers, and played a major part in winning the Revolutionary War at sea.
Indeed, Jeremiah O\'Brien\'s privateer Unity successfully fought the first sea engagement of the Revolutionary War in the Battle of Ma.
These American Privateers seized more than 600 British merchant ships over the course of the war, capturing thousands of British seamen.
Eventually though, American shipyards began to turn out specially-converted ships, while later still, the first purpose-built Privateers entered the fray.
At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results.
During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque as a way of combating Britain\'s overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority.
This title explores the ships and history of the enterprising American patriots who fought the Royal Navy as privateers, and played a major part in winning the Revolutionary War at sea.
Packed with fascinating insights into the age of privateers, this book traces the development of these remarkable ships, and explains how they made such a significant contribution to the American Revolutionary War.
A small number of Loyalist Privateers also put to sea during the war, and preyed on the shipping of their rebel countrymen.
By the end of the war, some of the largest American Privateers could venture as far as the British Isles, and were more powerful than most contemporary warships in the fledgling US Navy.
With just 40 men, their guns, axes, and pitchforks and the words Surrender to America, he managed to capture a British armed schooner.
Indeed, Jeremiah O\'Brien\'s privateer Unity successfully fought the first sea engagement of the Revolutionary War in the Battle of Machias of 1775.
These American Privateers seized more than 600 British merchant ships over the course of the war, capturing thousands of British seamen.
Eventually though, American shipyards began to turn out specially-converted ships, while later still, the first purpose-built Privateers entered the fray.
At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results.
During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque as a way of combating Britain\'s overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority.
This title explores the ships and history of the enterprising American patriots who fought the Royal Navy as privateers, and played a major part in winning the Revolutionary War at sea
