Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 364
be p s § ° -a THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY We have not much room to deal with the gloriousfights of the privateers of those days. Those who areinterested in the subject will find what they require inCaptain Stathams Privateers and Privateering.But we cannot pass on without at least a reference tothese… … S^^m^>r^S^ compelled to let the ship lie almost on her beam ends. of peace, their crews were undisciplined and untrained.But about the middle of the eighteenth century im-provements had been made in the metal, the casting andthe boring of the cannon, which were now made notquite so heavy, and…
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