The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630?1730

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Overview

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.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781574889116
  • Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Publication date: 2/27/2007
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 478,052
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Benerson Little was born in Key West, the son of a navy man. At age ten, he read Treasure Island, which led him to explore the world of the pirate. He later became a SEAL officer and an analyst for the Naval Special Warfare Center Strategy and Tactics Group. Little is the author of The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630–1730 (Potomac Books, 2005), The Buccaneer’s Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674–1688 (Potomac Books, 2007), and Pirate Hunting: The Fight Against Pirates, Privateers, and Sea Raiders from Antiquity to the Present (Potomac Books, 2010). He lives in Huntsville, Alabama, where he teaches fencing.

Table of Contents

1 The perils of wealth by stratagem and force of arms, part I : of greed and desperation 1
2 Sea rovers : freebooters, filibusters, cruisers, corsairs, buccaneers, privateers, and pirates 10
3 Wealth by force of arms : of purchase as purpose 23
4 Roving spirits, charter parties, and stout commanders : the recruiting, organization, and leadership of adventurers 29
5 Piraguas, sloops, and ships : tools of the trade, part I 41
6 Of small arms and fireworks : tools of the trade, part II 57
7 Cruising for purchase : forewarned is forearmed 75
8 Baptisms, pissdales, and dog watches : the routine at sea 84
9 Riches and dangers at sea : pirate prey and pirate hunters 95
10 "A sail! a sail!" : descrying and espying the prey 105
11 Colors true and colors false : in none we trust 111
12 Stand to her forefoot : giving chase 120
13 Hailing and showing teeth : the prey in range 129
14 Plucking a crow : small arms and great guns 134
15 Volleys, grenades, and cutlasses : laying her aboard under fire 153
16 Surprizals at sea : "Jesus! these men are devils!" 162
17 Surprizals at anchor : quiet waters, quiet oars 167
18 More surprizals at anchor : of trade and other pretenses 175
19 Sending a smoker and catching a tartar : more stratagems at sea 180
20 Houses, towns, and cities sacked : the sea rover as a soldier 190
21 Plunder and prisoners : the sanguine spoils 196
22 Rum, women, dice, turtle, and honor : the routine ashore and soon another venture 206
23 The perils of wealth by stratagem and force of arms, part II : dying by the sword 214
App. 1 Comparative actions of sea rovers 219
App. 2 Privateer, buccaneer, and pirate : a sea rover's lexicon, part I 221
App. 3 Galley, sloop, and piragua : a sea rover's lexicon, part II 228
App. 4 Mariner's language, 1630 to 1730 : a sea rover's lexicon, part III 239
App. 5 Roving writers and some I wish had been 243
App. 6 Spirits and belly timber : some culinary history and recipes for the adventurous 246
App. 7 Ranges, distances, weights, and measures 251
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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 22, 2005

    Well written and factual

    Ben Little has done an excellent job of writing this book. It is very difficult to maintain a good writing style, while keeping the factual nature of the material clear. The author has maintained this balance superbly. It is obvious that the author has obtained as much of the facts as possible from first hand accounts written during this time period. It is also nice to see military tactical thinking without the Hollywood overlay of glitz. I would recommend this book to anyone that would like a factual view of pirate tactics, life style, and weaponry.

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