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Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Shows how the political turmoil of the Spanish American Wars of Independence allowed an upsurge in prize-taking activity by navies, privateers and pirates. Priv
Language: en
Pages: 233
Pages: 233
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-22 - Publisher: Springer
Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles B
Language: en
Pages: 222
Pages: 222
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and
Language: en
Pages: 222
Pages: 222
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.The pirate attack on the British brig Morning Star, en route f
Language: en
Pages: 455
Pages: 455
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-15 - Publisher: Routledge
Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of m