A History of American Privateers and Letters of Marque Interspersed with Several Naval Battles Between American and British Ships of War
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: September 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781432623401
Subjects: History / United States / General; United States - General; History; History - U.S; History: American
First sentence: ALTHOUGH the clouds of war had, for a long time, been gathering in the political horizon, and everything looked dark and threatening, still there was a secret feeling in the bosom of a large portion of the nation that they would be dispelled, and that something would eventually transpire to divert the wide-spread calamity and distress that war, and its evil attendants, would inevitably produce.