Donald G Shomette

(Author)

Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on the Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807Paperback, 1 April 2008

Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on the Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807
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Print Length
252 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Date Published
1 Apr 2008
ISBN-10
087033607X
ISBN-13
9780870336072

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A dazzling array of swashbuckling pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers are pitted against the often feckless representatives of an outpost government authority in the Chesapeake Bay region. It is an exciting and dramatic two hundred-year history that begins grimly with the "starving time" in the Virginia colony in 1609, and ends with the peaceful resolution of the Othello affair with the French in 1807. In between lies a full panoply of violent and bizarre buccaneering incidents that one is hard pressed to imagine from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. Documented by impressive research in articles of the Netherlands, England, and the United States, Shomette skillfully reconstructs these episodes and many others, including the intensive anti-pirate cruise to capture--dead or alive--the notorious Blackbeard. The anti-pirate cruises led to the roundup of dozens of pirates and some showy executions but did little to curb the continued terrorist activities of bandits like Roger Makeele, Stede Bonnet, and Joseph Wheland.

Product Details

Author:
Donald G Shomette
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 April 2008
Dimensions:
22.35 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
087033607X
ISBN-13:
9780870336072
Language:
English
Location:
Centreville
Pages:
252
Weight:
566.99 gm

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