| Trimming Yankee Sails: Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick Contributor(s): Kert, Faye (Author) |
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ISBN: 0864924429 ISBN-13: 9780864924421 Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2005 Annotation: In Trimming Yankee Sails, Faye Kert recounts a thrilling but little-known story. Pirates and privateers sailed from New Brunswick ports throughout the 19th century, but their exploits began in earnest during the War of 1812. With Letters of Marque and Reprisal, they waged a legal private war against the King's enemies ? the Americans. The European states outlawed privateering in 1856, but the American failure to sign the treaty left an opening for a gang of ne?er-do-well Saint Johners, led by a renegade Southern rebel, to commit one of the final acts of piracy in North American history. In December 1863, on behalf of the Confederate States of America, they captured the SS Chesapeake, the New York-to-Portland passenger steamer. Click for more in this series: New Brunswick Military Heritage |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - Pre-confederation (to 1867) - History | Military - Canada - History | Military - Naval |
| Dewey: 971.510 |
| Series: New Brunswick Military Heritage |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.64" W x 7.76" L (0.33 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Canadian - Geographic Orientation - New Brunswick |
| Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
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| Publisher Description: The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint John to the east coast of the United States down to the Virginias, this insightful book offers a glimpse of northeastern North America's naval history and the pirates and privateers who scourged the Atlantic coast throughout the 19th century. In Trimming Yankee Sails, Faye Kert recounts a thrilling but little known story. Pirates and privateers sailed from New Brunswick ports throughout the 19th century, but their exploits began in earnest during the War of 1812. Amid tales of battles at sea and fortunes lost and won, Kert's exposure of the murky context in which these semi-legal marauders operated reveals surprising truths about Confederation and its promoters. Trimming Yankee Sails: Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick is Volume 6 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kert, Faye: - Privateers and pirates hunting their prey out of Atlantic Canadian ports have been Faye Kert's passion for many years. She is a popular speaker on North Atlantic seafaring adventurers, the book review editor of the Canadian Nautical Research Society's journal The Northern Mariner and the author of Pride and Prejudice: Privateering and Naval Prize in Atlantic Canada in the War of 1812, the standard work on the subject. She also worked on two important underwater archaeological projects: the discovery, survey and excavation of a 16th-century Basque whaling vessel at Red Bay, Labrador, and the raising of Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose in Portsmouth, England. |
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