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• Fanning's narrative : the memoirs of Nathaniel Fanning, an officer of the revolutionary army, 1778-1783 (New York : Arno Press, [1968], 1968), by Nathaniel Fanning and John S. Barnes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Collection of sundry publications and other documents, in relation to the attack made during the late war upon the private armed brig General Armstrong of New-York, commanded by S.C. Reid on the night of the 26th of September, 1814, at the island of Fayal, by His Britannic Majesty's ships Plantagenet Seventy-Four, Rota Frigate and Carnation sloop of war. (s.n.], 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, by A. F. Warburton (Gutenberg ebook)

• A History of American Privateers (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by Edgar Stanton Maclay
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• Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v77; 1927), by Gardner Weld Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two years on the Alabama (Lee and Shepard, 1896), by Arthur Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Privateer of Massachusetts Bay (New-York : F.A. Brady (successor to E.D. Long), [between 1870 and 1879?], 1870), by Sylvanus Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates ([New York : Printed by William Bradford, 1693]), by New York (State) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates ([New York : Printed by William Bradford, 1692]), by New York (State) (HTML at Evans TCP)

• An act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates ([New York : William Bradford, 1693]), by New York (State) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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

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• Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
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• 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)
• History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque with an account of the Liverpool slave trade. (W. Heinemann;, 1897), by Gomer Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The voyages and cruises of Commodore Walker, during the late Spanish and French wars ... (Printed for A. Millar, 1760) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bermuda privateers, 1739-1748 ([Royal gazette and colonist daily], 1923), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The navy of the United States, from the commencement, 1775 to 1853; with a brief history of each vessel's service and fate ... (Printed by Gideon & Co., 1853), by George F. Emmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Privateering and piracy in the colonial period: illustrative documents (The Macmillan Company, 1923), by J. Franklin Jameson and National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Thomas Painter, relating his experiences during the war of the Revolution. ([Washington, D.C.?, 1910), by Thomas Painter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Privateers of Charleston in the War of 1812. (Historical Commission of Charleston, S. C., 1954), by Harold Alwyn Mouzon (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the American privateers, and letters-of-marque : during our war with England in the years 1812, '13 and '14. Interspersed with several naval battles between American and British ships-of-war (The author, 1856), by George Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the red jack; privateers of the maritime provinces of Canada in the war of 1812 (The Musson book company limited, 1928), by C. H. J. Snider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of Joseph Valpey, jr., of Salem, November, 1813-April, 1815, with other papers relating to his experience in Dartmoor prison. (Michigan Society of Colonial Wars, 1922), by Joseph Valpey, Burton Historical Collection, and General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.). Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The corsairs of France (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887), by Charles Boswell Norman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confederate privateers (Yale university press;, 1928), by William M. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Privateer ships and sailors; the first century of American colonial privateering, 1625-1725. (Imprimerie G. Mouton, 1926., 1926), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nieuwe reize naa de Zuid zee, van daar naa Oost-Indien, en verder rondom de waereld. ... (By J. Oosterwyk en H. van de Gaete, 1715), by Woodes Rogers and Alexander Selkirik (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage round the world by the way of the great South Sea, perfom'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty's commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish crown) till she was cast away on the island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720; and afterwards continu'd in the Reccvery [!] the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. (J. Senex [etc.], 1726), by George Shelvocke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cruising voyage round the world (Longmans, Green & Co., 1928), by Woodes Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bermuda privateers ... [1625-1703] (Hamilton, Bermuda, 1925), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kreuzungsschiffe und der kaperkrieg. (Druck von C. Gerold's sohn in Wien, 1876), by Paul Dislère and A. Deitrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in naval history : biographies (Longmans, Green, 1887), by John Knox Laughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abolition of privateering and the Declaration of Paris (Columbia University, 1897), by Francis R. Stark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war of 1812. A part of its naval history. (Providence, 1897), by William Cory Snow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tratado juridico-politico, sobre pressas de mar, y calidades, que deben concurrir para hacerse legitimamente el corso. (Imprenta real de marina, 1746), by Felix Joseph de Abreu y Bertodano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage autour du monde, commencé en 1708 & fini en 1711. (Chez la veuve de P. Marret, 1716), by Woodes Rogers and M. Le Roy Gomberville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life aboard a British privateer in the time of Queen Anne : being the journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, master mariner (Chapman and Hall, 1889), by Woodes Rogers and Robert C. Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private men-of-war (R.M. McBride & company, 1932), by Charles Wye Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jean Ango : Vicomte de Dieppe (A. Lestringant, 1903), by Gabriel Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Are the southern privateersmen pirates? Letter to the Hon. Ira Harris, United States senator. (J. B. Kirker, 1862), by Charles P. Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American privateers (Sampson, Low, Marston & co., 1900), by Edgar Stanton Maclay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American privateers. (Dodd, Mead, 1962), by Donald Barr Chidsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journal of Gideon Olmstead : adventures of a sea captain during the American Revolution (Library of Congress, 1978), by Gideon Olmsted and Library of Congress Manuscript Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les corsaires. (Mercvre de France, 1912), by Henri Malo and des lettres et des arts Société dunkerquoise pour l'encouragement des sciences (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The log of the Grand Turks (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926), by Robert E. Peabody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous privateersmen and adventurers of the sea; their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure (L. C. Page, 1911), by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abolition of privateering and the declaration of Paris ... (New York, 1897), by Francis Raymond 1877- Stark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a voyage into the Mediterranean (Printed for the Camden Society, 1868), by Kenelm Digby and John Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the American privateers, and letters-of-marque, during our war with England in the years 1812, '13, and '14. Interspersed with several naval battles between American and British ships-of-war. (The Author, 1861), by George Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Counter manifest of the minister of foreign relations of Chile, on the present war between the republic and Spain. (McGill & Witherow, printers, 1866), by Chile. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores and Chile. Ministerio de Marina (page images at HathiTrust)
• The voyages and cruises of Commodore Walker (Cassell and company ltd., 1928), by Herbert S. Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ordenanza de S.M. que prescribe las reglas con que se ha de hacer el corso de particulares contra enemigos de la corona. [20 de junio de 1801]. Reimpresa de orden superior. (en la Imprenta real, 1834), by Spain, King of Spain Charles IV, and Pedro Varela (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compendium of the statute laws, and regulations of the Court of admiralty; relative to ships of war, privateers, prizes, recaptures, and prize-money. With an appendix of notes, precedents, &c. (Printed for W. Clarke and sons, 1803), by Thomas Hartwell Horne and Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Corsaires français sous la République et l'Empire (Julien, Lanier, 1847), by N. Gallois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Otway Burns, patriot, privateer and legislator ... (New York, 1905), by Walter Francis Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on privateers, captures, and particularly on recaptures, according to the laws, treaties, and usages of the maritime powers of Europe (Printed for E. and R. Brooke [etc.], 1801), by G. F. de Martens and Thomas Hartwell Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of two cases determined in the Prize Court for the New-York District (Gould, Banks and Gould, 1814), by United States. District Court (New York), James Beswicke, William Falconer, John Richardson, Robert Falconer, Charles Johnson, William Peter Van Ness, and Tickler (Ship) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A green hand's first cruise, roughed out from the log-book of memory, of twenty-five years standing: together with a residence of five months in Dartmoor. (Otis, Broaders, and Co., 1841), by Josiah Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further papers relating to the war with America, ordered by The House of Commons, to be printed. ([London?], 1815), by Great Britain Foreign Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch über caper, feindliche nehmungen, und insonderheit wiedernehmungen. Nach den gestzen, verträgen und gebräuchen der enropäischen seemächte. (J. C. Dieterich, 1795), by G. F. de Martens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a voyage into the Mediterranean by Sir Kenelm Digby, A. D. 1628. (Printed for the Camden society, 1868), by Kenelm Digby and John Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai concernant les armateurs, les prises et surtout les reprises. D'après les loix, les traités, et les usages des puissances maritimes de l'Europe. (J. C. Dieterich, 1795), by G. F. de Martens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American privateers (D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by Edgar Stanton Maclay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical Essays (C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), by Henry Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Are the southern privateersmen pirates? letter to the Hon. Ira Harris, United States senator (J. B. Kirker, 1862), by Charles P. Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beverly privateers in the American revolution (J. Wilson and Son, 1922), by Octavius T. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Insurgent privateers in foreign ports. ([Washington, 1862), by United States. Dept. of State and 2d session United States. 37th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• A green hand's first cruise ... together with a residence of five months in Dartmoor. (Cushing & brother, 1841), by Josiah Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque with an account of the Liverpool slave trade. (W. Heinemann;, 1897), by Gomer Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• La course à Nantes aux XVIIe & XVIIIe siècles (A. Rousseau, 1900), by André Péju (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le contre-amiral Bouvet. Nos corsaires. (Berger-Levrault, 1886), by Eugène Joseph Fabre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Système universel des armemens en course et des corsaires en tems de guerre suivi d'un précis des moyens propres à diminuez les dangers de la navigation des neutres (Imprimerie Hyacinthe Bonaudo, 1817), by D. A. Azuni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of the owners and freighters of the ship Worcester, in relation to the seising and condemning of the said ship and cargoe, in the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland; for reprisal of the Scots ship Annandale, seised by the English East-India company in England. And also the case of the late capt. Thomas Green, commander of the said ship Worcester, and his crew, condemned and part of them executed in Scotland, for pretended piracy and murder ([s.n.], 1705), by Worcester (Ship), Thomas Green, Scotland. High Court of Admiralty, and Annandale (Ship : 1704) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proclamation. (s.n., 1861), by Confederate States of America. President and Jefferson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage round the world (Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1928), by George Shelvocke and W. G. Perrin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Danmarks kapervæsen 1807-14. (Gyldendal, 1915), by Kay Larsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The free lances : stories of the sea fighters of all nations in their long cruising and desperate battling for honor and treasure (The McClure company, 1907), by Jack Brand (page images at HathiTrust)
• American privateers. (The author, 1856), by George Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les corsaires bayonnais (Chez Mme. veuve Lamaignère, impr., 1856), by Édouard Lamaignère (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertatio iuris gentium inauguralis De occupatione bellica bonorum privatorum in bello maritimo quam... submittet Henricus Rochussen. (apud J. Hazenberg, 1857), by Henricus Rochussen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les corsaires à l'exposition de Bordeaux. (G. Gounouilhou, 1907), by Jean de Maupassant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Are the southern privateersmen pirates? : letter to the Hon. Ira Harris, United States senator (J.B. Kirker, 1862), by Charles P. Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maritime law. Correspondence relative to neutral rights between the government of the United States and the powers represented in the congress at Paris. 1856. (A.O.P. Nicholson, printer, 1856), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dau draethawd, y cyntaf ar ordderchawgrwydd yr iaith gymraeg a'r ail ar y creulondeb o yspeilio llongau drylliedig. (argraffwyd gan J.T. Jones, 1834), by Samuel Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prize money (1913), by Quincy Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque with an account of the Liverpool slave trade (Edward Howell, 1906), by Gomer Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the American privateers and letters-of-marque during our war with England in the years 1812, '13 and ' 14 : interspersed with several naval battles between American and British ships-of-war (G. Coggeshall, 1856), by George Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the American privateers, and letters-of-marque during our war with England in the years 1812, '13 and '14 interspersed with several naval battles between American and British ships of war (G. Coggeshall, 1861), by George Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Privateersmen of Newport. (J. P. Sanborn, printer, 1883), by William P. Sheffield and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• La course maritime. (Paris, 1875), by Êmile Carron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life aboard a British privateer in the time of Queen Anne : being the journal of Captain Woodes Rogers (Chapman and Hall, 1894), by Woodes Rogers, Robert C. Leslie, and Robert Charles Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• La guerre de course dans le passé, dans le présent et dand l'avenir. (A. Pedone, 1901), by Charles La Mache (page images at HathiTrust)
• La guerre maritime, les armements en course et la juridiction des prises; étude de droit international (Falk fils, 1900), by Georges Leroy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les corsaires et la guerre maritime (A. Challamel, 1904), by Henry Brongniart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les corsaires; mémoires et documents inédits. (Mercvre de France, 1908), by Henri Malo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les derniers corsaires malouins. La course sous la République et l'Émpire, 1793-1814. (1919), by F. Robidou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Captain Jeremiah O'Brien, Machias, Maine : commander of the first American naval flying squadron of the War of the Revolution (G.W. Sherman, 1902), by Andrew M. Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sundry documents (copied from the original) relative to the claim of Gideon Olmsted, against the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Respectfully submitted to the consideration of the members of the legislature of said commonwealth. (Printed by E. Olmsted, 1811), by Gideon Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abolition of privateering and the declaration of Paris (AMS Press, 1967), by Francis R. Stark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some famous privateers of New England (Priv. print., State Street Trust Company, 1928), by Ralph Mason Eastman and Boston State Street Trust Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A relation of a brave and resolute sea-fight, made by Sr. Kenelam [sic] Digby : (on the Bay of Scandarone, the 16. of June last past) with certaine galegasses & galeasses, belonging to the States of Venice, to his great commendation, and to the honour of our English nation (Printed for K.G. Huston by S. & L. Marks at the Plantin Press, 1974), by Kenelm Digby, France. Sovereign (1601-1643 : Louis XIII), Plantin Press, Rounce & Coffin Club, Zamorano Club, and Roxburghe Club of San Francisco (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage round the world. Being an account of a remarkable enterprize, begun in the year 1719, chiefly to cruise on the Spaniards in the great South ocean. Relating the true historical facts of that whole affair: testifyd by many imployd therein; and confirmd by authorities from the owners. (Printed for T. Combes [etc.], 1728), by William Betagh (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cruising voyage round the world (Cassell, 1928), by Woodes Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyages and cruizes of Capt. Walker. ([Boston, 1942) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Privateer of Massachusetts Bay (New-York : F.A. Brady (successor to E.D. Long), [between 1870 and 1879?], 1870), by Sylvanus Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in naval history. Biographies. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1887), by John Knox Laughton (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 (Little, Brown, 1864), by George Bemis (page images at HathiTrust)
• La grande guerre des corsaires : Dunkerque (1702-1715) (Paris : Émile-Paul frères, 1925., 1925), by Henri Malo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Voyage Round the World: Being an account of a remarkable enterprize, begun in the year 1719, chiefly to cruise on the Spaniards in the great South ocean. Relating the true historical facts of that whole affair: testifyd by many imployd therein; and confirmd by authorities from the owners., by William Betagh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prize Money, by Quincy Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• Privateers and Privateering, by Edward Phillips Statham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea: Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure, by Charles H. L. Johnston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson (Gutenberg ebook)

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