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To read of sea roving's various
incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la
course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery.
Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic
clich?. And what an image it is! But its truth is by halves, and
paradoxically it is the picaresque imagery of Pyle, Wyeth,
Sabatini, and Hollywood that is often closer to the reality, while
the historical details of arms, tactics, and language are often
inaccurate or entirely anachronistic. Successful sea rovers were
careful practitioners of a complex profession that sought wealth by
stratagem and force of arms. Drawn from the European tradition, yet
of various races and nationalities, they raided both ship and town
throughout much of the world from roughly 1630 until 1730. Using a
variety of innovative tactics and often armed with little more than
musket and grenade, many of these self-described "soldiers and
privateers" successfully assaulted fortifications, attacked
shipping from small craft, crossed the mountains and jungles of
Panama, and even circumnavigated the globe. Successful sea rovers
were often supreme seamen, soldiers, and above all, tacticians. It
can be argued that their influence on certain naval tactics is felt
even today. The Sea Rover's Practice is the only book that
describes in exceptional detail the tactics of sea rovers of the
period - how they actually sought out and attacked vessels and
towns. Accessible to both the general and the more scholarly
reader, it will appeal not only to those with an interest in piracy
and in maritime, naval, and military history, but also to mariners
in general, tall-ship and ship-modeling enthusiasts, tacticians and
military analysts, readers of historical fiction, writers, and the
adventurer in all of us. |
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