Untold War at Sea: America's Revolutionary Privateers

Untold War at Sea: America's Revolutionary Privateers | Kylie Hulbert

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Action at sea played a critical role in European and Anglo-American conflicts throughout the eighteenth century. Yet the oft-told narrative of the American Revolution tends to focus on battles on American soil or the debates and decisions of the Continental Congress. The Untold War at Sea is the first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and center. Kylie A. Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises and court cases. This study reconsiders the role privateers played in the Revolution and challenges the conventional view of privateers as opportunists motivated by profit. Despite their controversial tactics, Hulbert argues that privateers merit a place alongside minutemen and Continental soldiers and sailors as important contributors to American independence.
About the Speaker:
Kylie A. Hulbert is a historian of early America with interests in war and society, maritime history and social history. She is currently a visiting instructor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and was formerly an assistant professor of Colonial American History at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Professor Hulbert earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Georgia in 2015 and is also the author of “History, Sir, Will Tell Lies as Usual: Founders, Patriots, and the War for Independence on Film,” a chapter of Martial Culture, Silver Screen published in 2020.
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@MrGarritos 2 жыл бұрын

I love that Kylie mentioned the Penobscot expedition! I wish she had gone into the State Navies.. They often worked in concert with privateers and were described ambiguously as either. One such example was the destruction of the Virginia State Navy at Osborne's Landing by Benedict Arnold and Simcoe in 1781. In this action, nearly half of the vessels were in fact hired privateers. Im really hoping for naval content like this, keep up the great work!

@jimrutherford2773 5 ай бұрын

The privateers were an essential part in the war on the high seas against the British. How many privateers lost their lives in combat in fights against ships they attempted to arrest?

@pshawhudson 2 жыл бұрын

I think this is great it really does fill in some gaps and my own historical studies. Thank you for this. I always came across events on the sea with some speculation and this clarified a lot for me. I grew up in Brewer on the Panobscot river and I would ride by a cannon by the bridge every day. A cannon that was dredged from the bottom of the river from the ships that burned on the penobscot expedition.

@covertops19Z 10 ай бұрын

I Love the part of the Constitution that authorizes still today, the authority to issue Letters of Mark.. Read Rebels at Sea by Eric Jay Dolin. It's a great read🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸, MERICA'