Lester, David

Summary: "Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023

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Sandler, Martin W

Summary: Describes what happened when a slave ship packed with plunder was captured by pirates in 1717 then sunk by a brutal storm. Tells the story of the 1984 expedition to locate the wreck and what was uncovered.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 SAN

Keith, Phil

Summary: Two award-winning historians bring to life the greatest Civil War battle at sea, which was fought off the coast of France in 1864 and effectively ended the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEI

Kilmeade, Brian

Summary: This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 KIL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Kilmeade

Clifford, Barry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 987 CLI

Talty, Stephan.

Summary: Chronicles the real-life adventures of Welsh pirate Henry Morgan and his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English, from his attacks on Spanish merchant ships to his final assault on Panama that ended Spanish domination of the New World.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.904 TAL

Gough, Barry M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanwell 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.034 GOU

Lavery, Brian.

Contents: Naval fact and naval fiction -- The world of the seaman -- The ships -- Officers -- The lower deck -- Techniques -- Life at sea -- Enemies and allies -- The navy in action -- The experience of war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 LAV

Kelly, Jack

Summary: "The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America's scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain's sea power. "Few know of the valor and courage of Benedict Arnold... With such a dramatic main character, the story of the Battle of Valcour is finally seen as one of the most exciting and important of the American...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 KEL

Zacks, Richard.

Summary: In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out in 1805 on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, but at the last moment he grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government, and Eaton set off without national support. Short on supplies, given...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005

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Nelson, James L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.35 NEL

Lambert, Andrew D.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.4 LAM

Faragher, John Mack

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W Norton & Co. 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.601 FAR

Bainbridge, John

Summary: "John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons. Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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Ronald, D. A. B.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey 2009

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Haley, James L.

Summary: "Commander Bliven Putnam faces the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain since the Revolution in this high seas adventure by award-winning historian James L. Haley. At the onset of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth and, to keep up their numbers, they are forcing helpless American traders into service against their own flag. In the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL

Dolin, Eric Jay

Summary: "The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 DOL

Slaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)

Summary: Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along the way. It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through and the people...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEW

Adkins, Roy.

Summary: "On October 21, 1805, the fate of Europe hung in the balance. In what came to be known as the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's Royal Navy, under the command of Lord Horatio Nelson, clashed with Napoleon's forces in an epic sea battle off the coast of Spain. Their landmark victory set the British on their vast imperial course."-Back cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.27 ADK

Symonds, Craig L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM SYM