Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART FIRST THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER I PRIVATEERS AND PRIVATEERSMEN
- CHAPTER II DANGERS PECULIAR TO PRIVATEERING
- CHAPTER III COLONIAL PRIVATEERS
- CHAPTER IV BEGINNING HOSTILITIES
- CHAPTER V FIRST TWO YEARS
- CHAPTER VI NAVY OFFICERS IN PRIVATEERS
- CHAPTER VII CAPTAIN SILAS TALBOT
- CHAPTER VIII RAPID GROWTH OF PRIVATEERING
- CHAPTER IX A BOY PRIVATEERSMAN
- CHAPTER X THE WORK OF 1779
- CHAPTER XI JONATHAN HARADEN
- CHAPTER XII AN ESCAPE FROM OLD MILL PRISON
- CHAPTER XIII CRUISE OF DR. SOLOMON DROWNE
- CHAPTER XIV CAREER OF THE GENERAL WASHINGTON
- CHAPTER XV CAPTAIN JOHN MANLY
- CHAPTER XVI CLOSING YEARS OF THE WAR
- PART SECOND THE WAR OF 1812
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER VII - CAPTAIN SILAS TALBOT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART FIRST THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER I PRIVATEERS AND PRIVATEERSMEN
- CHAPTER II DANGERS PECULIAR TO PRIVATEERING
- CHAPTER III COLONIAL PRIVATEERS
- CHAPTER IV BEGINNING HOSTILITIES
- CHAPTER V FIRST TWO YEARS
- CHAPTER VI NAVY OFFICERS IN PRIVATEERS
- CHAPTER VII CAPTAIN SILAS TALBOT
- CHAPTER VIII RAPID GROWTH OF PRIVATEERING
- CHAPTER IX A BOY PRIVATEERSMAN
- CHAPTER X THE WORK OF 1779
- CHAPTER XI JONATHAN HARADEN
- CHAPTER XII AN ESCAPE FROM OLD MILL PRISON
- CHAPTER XIII CRUISE OF DR. SOLOMON DROWNE
- CHAPTER XIV CAREER OF THE GENERAL WASHINGTON
- CHAPTER XV CAPTAIN JOHN MANLY
- CHAPTER XVI CLOSING YEARS OF THE WAR
- PART SECOND THE WAR OF 1812
- INDEX
- Plate section
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- A History of American Privateers , pp. 91 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1899