Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy
Subtitle: privateer, patriot, pioneer
By: Sheldon S. Cohen ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith.
Series: New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813034331
Subjects: Whipple, Abraham, -- 1733-1819; United States. -- Continental Navy -- Biography; Ship captains -- United States -- Biography; Privateering -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Pioneers -- Ohio -- Biography; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Naval operations; Ohio -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rhode Island beginnings; title: The passage from peacetime to rebellion, 1763-1775; title: Whipple's war, at home and abroad, 1775-1778; title: War's fortunes and misfortunes, 1779-1783; title: Postwar discontentments, 1783-1789; title: Final years in Ohio, 1789-1819.