Product Description: Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain...read more

Product Description: Published in 1896, these are Arthur Sinclair's memoirs of his time spent serving the Confederate States on the infamous C.S.S. Alabama during the War Between the States.

Product Description: During the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy numbered several dozen ships and captured fewer than 200 British vessels. American privateers, on the other hand, commanded more than 200 vessels and captured more than 1,000 British ships. The privateers proved the only American force that consistently threatened Britain throughout the Atlantic, especially along the coasts of the British Isles...read more

Product Description: 16-page b/w photo section 5 maps 6 x 9 "Confederate Corsair: The Life of Lt. Charles W. "Savez" Read is must reading for anyone savoring naval warfare and tales of derring-do. Read has long merited a biography, and Robert A. Jones has met and mastered the challenge in an exemplary manner that readers will applaud...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An account of the naval battle between the Argus and the Pelican, focusing on the ship's main officers