| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 517 pages) : illustrations |
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History series |
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History series (Hambledon Press)
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface; John Bromley, Historian; Publications of J.S. Bromley; 1 Outlaws at Sea, 1660-1720: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity among Caribbean Freebooters; 2 Colonies at War; 3 A Letter-Book of Robert Cole, British Consul-General at Algiers, 1694-1712; 4 The North Sea in Wartime, 1688-1713; 5 The Importance of Dunkirk Reconsidered, 1688-1713; 6 Jacques-Winoc Plets, armateur en course (c. 1650-1716); 7 Quelques réflections sur le fonctionnement des classes maritimes en France, 1689-1713; 8 The Jacobite Privateers in the Nine Years War |
| Summary |
Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design ""that might be both honourable and advantageous"", with ships lent and soldiers (but not seamen) paid by the King, who in return would take the Crown''s usual one-fifth interest in such ""preis de vaisseaux"", the remaining costs falling on private subscribers, in this case no less than 666 of them, he |
| Analysis |
Privateering, to 1760 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
In English and French |
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| Subject |
Privateering -- History -- 17th century
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Privateering -- History -- 18th century
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Naval history, Modern.
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TRAVEL -- Cruises.
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Naval history, Modern
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Privateering
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Seeräuber
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Bibliografie
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Seeräuberei
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kaapvaart.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826446589 |
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0826446582 |
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9781472599803 |
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1472599802 |
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1282024396 |
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9781282024397 |
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9786612024399 |
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6612024399 |
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