Patton, Robert H. (Robert Holbrook)

Summary: They were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy trade as they could successfully haul back to America's shores; they played a central role in America's struggle for independence and later turned their seafaring talents to the slave trade; embodying the conflict between enterprise and morality central to the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.3 PAT

Nelson, James L.

Format: text

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

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

Willis, Sam

Summary: "A naval perspective on how the American Revolution was successfully waged against the 18th century's most established naval and military power in spite of limited American resources shares key insights into the histories of multiple countries and contributing economic, political and social factors,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016

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

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...

Format: text

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

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...

Format: text

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

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

Lutz, Norma Jean.

Summary: A biography of the well-known naval leader, John Paul Jones, from his birth in Scotland through his participation in the American Revolution to his death in Paris at the age of forty-five.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1999

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JONES LUT

Ball, Georgia

Summary: Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BAL