Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution Dolin Eric Jay
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution Dolin Eric Jay The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Privateers were privately owned vessels, mostly refitted merchant ships, that were…
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution Dolin Eric Jay
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. 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. 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.
Nearly 2,000 set sail over the course of the war, with 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.