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• Privateering -- United States

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• Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Privateering in King George's War, 1739-1748 (1928), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711 (London: Printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1712), by Woodes Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney-General of England, in the British House of Commons, May 13, 1864 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1864), by George Bemis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne: Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner (London: Chapman and Hall, 1899), by Woodes Rogers, ed. by Robert Charles Leslie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Privateersman, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)

• The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v77; 1927), by Gardner Weld Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhode Island Privateers in King George's War, 1739-1748 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1926), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v77; 1927), by Gardner Weld Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Sixth Speed (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1908), by E. J. Rath, illust. by Charlotte Weber-Ditzler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by Stefan Eklöf Amirell (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by Stefan Eklöf Amirell (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• The Jeff Davis Piracy Cases: Full Report of the Trial of William Smith for Piracy, As One of the Crew of the Confederate Privateer, the Jeff Davis, Before Judges Grier and Cadwalader, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Held at Philadelphia, in October, 1861 (Philadelphia: King and Baird, Printers, 1861), ed. by D. F. Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
• In a Conning Tower, or, How I Took H.M.S. "Majestic" Into Action: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare (fourth edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by H. O. Arnold-Forster, illust. by William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)

• Derrotas Desde el Puerto de Montevideo a Buenos-Aires: Por el Norte, y Sud del Banco Chico, Que Para Bien de la Humanidad y Del Comercio (in Spanish; Montevideo, Uruguay: Imp. de la Caridad, 1826), by Benito Aizpurúa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Laskari Dictionary: or, Anglo-Indian Vocabulary of Nautical Terms and Phrases in English and Hindustani, Chiefly in the Corrupt Jargon in Use Among Laskars or Indian Sailors (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, ca. 1881), by Thomas Roebuck, William Carmichael Smyth, and George Small (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Universal Dictionary of the Marine (new edition; London: T. Cadell, 1780), by William Falconer (HTML at National Library of Australia)
• Vocabolario Marino e Militare (in Italian; Rome: Voghera Carlo, 1889), by Alberto P. Guglielmotti (page images at HathiTrust)

• United States Naval Institute Proceedings (partial serial archives)

• The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1958), by Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, and Andreas Tietze (page images at HathiTrust)

• Derrotas Desde el Puerto de Montevideo a Buenos-Aires: Por el Norte, y Sud del Banco Chico, Que Para Bien de la Humanidad y Del Comercio (in Spanish; Montevideo, Uruguay: Imp. de la Caridad, 1826), by Benito Aizpurúa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Camouflage Simplified (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1942), by Eric Sloane (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1917), by George C. Thorpe (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• U. S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), by Duncan S. Ballantine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boys' Book of Sea Fights: Famous Naval Engagements From Drake to Beatty (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1920), by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1911), by Julian Stafford Corbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Monitoring Limits on Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles (OTA-ISC-513; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Submarine Warfare of To-Day (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1920), by Charles W. Domville-Fife (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heresies of Sea Power (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Fred T. Jane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Soveraignty of the British Seas, Proved by Records, History, and the Municipal Laws of This Kingdom: Written in the Year 1633 (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1739), by John Borough (multiple formats at Google)
• The Sovereignty of the British Seas: Written in the Year 1633 (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, Ltd., 1920), by John Borough, ed. by Thomas Callander Wade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Sovereignty of the Sea: An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters; With Special Reference to the Rights of Fishing and the Naval Salute (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911), by Thomas Wemyss Fulton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations Which Have From the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time (new and revised edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1878), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Walter W. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
• Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1905), by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• The World's Highway: Some Notes on America's Relation to Sea Power and Non-Military Sanctions for the Law of Nations (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1915), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or, A Key to The Leading of Rigging, and to Practical Seamanship (American edition; New York: E. and G. W. Blunt, 1858), by Darcy Lever, contrib. by G. W. Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sound-Signals (reprinted from the Annual Cyclopaedia; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A System of Marine Signals (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1876), by S. P. Griffin (multiple formats at Google)

• Shakespeare's Sea Terms Explained (Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1910), by W. B. Whall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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