Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

by Eric Jay Dolin

Book Overview

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631498258
• ISBN13: 9781631498251
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"