num_pages: 352
description: The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before yet missing from most maritime histories of Americas first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war that truly revealed the new nations characterabove all its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos.In Rebels at Sea best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission and contends that privateers though often seen as profiteers at best and pirates at worst were in fact critical to the Revolutions outcome. Armed with cannons swivel guns muskets and pikesas well as government documents granting them the right to seize enemy shipsthousands of privateers tormented the British on the broad Atlantic and in bays and harbors on both sides of the ocean. Abounding with tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters Rebels at Sea presents the American Revolution as we have rarely seen it before.
language: English
title: Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
publisher: Liveright