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Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830
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Pages: 196
Authors: Matthew McCarthy
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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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
The War Against the Pirates
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Barry Gough
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-22 - Publisher: Springer

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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
Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Sarah Craze
Categories: Piracy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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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
Navies in Multipolar Worlds
Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: Paul Kennedy
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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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
Privateers of the Americas
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: David Head (Historian)
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Head examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. Because privateering further complicated international dealings