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Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea

First published: 1911
Pages: 320

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Fifteen sea rovers get a chapter apiece, and Charles H. L. Johnston makes little effort to sort the patriots from the plunderers. The run opens with Carlo Zeno of medieval Venice and closes with Raphael Semmes burning Northern commerce in the Civil War. Between them stand Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Jean Bart the scourge of the Dutch, Robert Surcouf of St. Malo, John Paul Jones and Josh Barney fighting for the young American republic, and Lafitte, working the Gulf of Mexico chiefly for himself. The preface opens "My dear Boys," and the dedication honors G. A. Henty, which tells you the register: the running fight, the boarding party, the prize taken against odds. Published in 1911, it reads now as brisk adventure and as a record of what American boys were handed to admire.

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Charles H. L. Johnston

Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (1877–1943) was an American writer of popular biography, born in Washington, D.C. He taught in the English department at Harvard and later served as an instructor in English and lecturer in military history at MIT.

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