Word: privateersmen
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...welcome by a number of brave fellows there assembled and treated with that excellent liquor called grog ..." When a band of fortune hunters gathers in response to such a lure, these "brave fellows" are soon recruited into the growing forces of legalized buccaneers whom General Washington calls "our rascally privateersmen...
Rascally they may be, but the privateersmen are providing the embargo-ridden American economy with badly needed supplies and giving employment to thousands of Americans thrown out of work by the British blockade. Privateering was legalized throughout the Colonies by the Continental Congress only this past March, and today the privateer fleet already totals 136 ships with 1,360 guns-far outnumbering the Navy's 31 vessels and 586 guns. Of the nearly 50 British ships captured since last November, the large majority have been seized by privateers. So privateering is becoming big business (it is estimated, for example...
...read a paper on the need for a native American literature, Hawthorne went home to his mother's house in Salem and worked at writing. In nine years he borrowed over 700 books from the Salem Athenaeum, a library whose nucleus men like his father had captured, as privateersmen, from the English. Cantwell has looked up the Hawthornes' library record. He deliberately studied New England, reading among other things the files of Salem newspapers during Hawthorne's lifetime. "The books," Cantwell writes, "provide an almost weekly record of his whereabouts for nine years. The legendary mystery...
Both Publisher Abell and the city in which he set up shop were bustling and full of fight when Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Sun came out. Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west to Harper's Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column...
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