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" Corsairs and navies, 1660-1760 / "
J.S. Bromley.
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BL
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1025312
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b779682
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Bromley, J. S., (John Selwyn)
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Corsairs and navies, 1660-1760 /\ J.S. Bromley.
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London ;Ronceverte, WV, U.S.A. :: Hambledon Press,, 1987.
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History series
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1 online resource (xxv, 517 pages) :: illustrations.
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0826446582
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: 1282024396
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: 9780826446589
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: 9781282024397
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: 9781472599803
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090762877X
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9780907628774
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface; John Bromley, Historian; Publications of J.S. Bromley; 1 Outlaws at Sea, 1660-1720: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity among Caribbean Freebooters; 2 Colonies at War; 3 A Letter-Book of Robert Cole, British Consul-General at Algiers, 1694-1712; 4 The North Sea in Wartime, 1688-1713; 5 The Importance of Dunkirk Reconsidered, 1688-1713; 6 Jacques-Winoc Plets, armateur en course (c. 1650-1716); 7 Quelques réflections sur le fonctionnement des classes maritimes en France, 1689-1713; 8 The Jacobite Privateers in the Nine Years War.
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Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design ""that might be both honourable and advantageous"", with ships lent and soldiers (but not seamen) paid by the King, who in return would take the Crown''s usual one-fifth interest in such ""preis de vaisseaux"", the remaining costs falling on private subscribers, in this case no less than 666 of them, he.
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Naval history, Modern.
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Privateering-- History-- 17th century.
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Privateering-- History-- 18th century.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Bibliografie
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Naval history, Modern.
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Privateering.
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Seeräuber
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Seeräuberei
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TRAVEL-- Cruises.
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Kaapvaart.
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| Dewey Classification
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359.4/09/032
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910.4/5
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| LC Classification
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V47.B76 1987
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15.00bcl
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86.92bcl
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