OTHER SOURCES OF INTEREST:

OTHER SOURCES OF INTEREST:

"THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812- A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY" EDITED BY WILLIAM S. DUDLEY ISBN 0-945274-06-8 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 85-600565

WHILE NOT STRICTLY ABOUT PIRATES THIS TEXT SHOWS HOW THE U.S. NEEDED THE NAVAL POWER OF THE PRIVATEERS OF THE GULF COAST.

"PRIVATEERS AND VOLUNTEERS" THE MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR RESERVE NAVAL FORCES;1766-1866 BY REUBEN ELMORE STRIVERS

ISBN: 087021-528-0 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 75-20749

A HISTORY OF PRIVATEERS IN U.S. NAVAL SERVICE. USING EXCERTS OF PERSONAL HISTORIES SHOWS DIFFERING VEIW POINTS OF THE VALUE OF THE PRIVATEERS AND THERE USES.

"PIRATES!" BRIGANDS, BUCCANEERS, AND PRIVATEERS IN FACT, FICTION, AND LEGEND. BY JAN ROGOZINSKI ISBN 0-8160-2761-7 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 94-12717

375 PAGES OF FACT AND FICTION COVERING PIRATES FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO THE CHINES AND MALAY PIRATES OF THE 1870s. GIVES AN OVER ALL VEIW OF PIRACY DURING THIS TIME FRAME HELP SEPERATE FACT FROM FICTION.

"PIRATES AND PRIVATEERS OF THE AMERICAS" BY DAVID F. MARLEY.

ISBN 0-87436-751-4 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 94-31348

COVERING PIRATES OF THE 1600'S, THIS BOOK GIVES SHORT BIO's ON MANY PIRATES, SOME MORE FAMOUS THAN OTHERS, OF THE WESTERN HEMISHPERE. THESE PIRATES OF THE AMERICAS, FOR GOOD OR BAD, HELPED SHAPE THE DIRECTION OF THE FUTURE COUNTRIES OF THIS PART OF THE WORLD.