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Author:

Cohen, Sheldon S. (Sheldon Samuel), 1931-

Title:

Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy : privateer, patriot, pioneer / Sheldon S. Cohen ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxi, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Whipple, Abraham,--1733-1819.
Ship captains--United States--Biography.
United States.--Continental Navy--Biography.
United States--Naval operations--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations
United States--Naval operations.--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Naval operations.
Privateering--United States--History--18th century.
Pioneers--Ohio--Biography.
Ohio--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Rhode Island beginnings -- The passage from peacetime to rebellion, 1763-1775 -- Whipple's war, at home and abroad, 1775-1778 -- War's fortunes and misfortunes, 1779-1783 -- Postwar discontentments, 1783-1789 -- Final years in Ohio, 1789-1819.

Series:

New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology

ISBN:

0813034337 (alk. paper)
9780813034331 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)421147591

LCCN:

2009025054

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)