The War Against the Pirates British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century /

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 Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors...

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Hlavní autor: Gough, Barry (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Britain and the World
Témata:
Great Britain-History.
United States-History.
Military history.
World politics.
ISBN:9781137314147
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  • Chapter 1: Prologue; Piracy in the Historical Literature
  • Chapter 2: Cockpit of Empires
  • Chapter 3: The Law of Piracy
  • Chapter 4: Crossroads of the American Seas: Gulf, Cuba, Puerto Rico
  • Chapter 5: Royal Navy at Work
  • Chapter 6: US Navy Operations
  • Chapter 7: Commodore Porter and the Fajardo Affair
  • Chapter 8: Common Cause: Royal Navy and US Navy Operations
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Emergent Alliance
  • Appendix 1: Chronology of Invasions of Cuba, 1812 -1850
  • Appendix 2: Chronology of Invasions of Puerto Rico, 1800-1850
  • Appendix 3: Sailing orders to Commodore Porter 1 February 1823.

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