Browsing by Subject "American Revolution"
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(2007-07-14)Lacking sufficient funds to build and maintain a sizeable navy, the young United States was forced to employ privateers as a “stop-gap navy” in its struggles against stronger sea powers during the War for Independence, the ...
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(2012-07-16)This thesis examines the methods and actions of selected Virginians who chose to adopt irregular tactics in wartime, and focuses on the reasons why they fought that way. The presence of the Cavalier image in Virginia had ...
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(2012-07-16)This study utilizes correspondence, memoirs, and secondary sources to explore the lives and careers of six Continental Navy captains?Esek Hopkins, Joshua Barney, John Paul Jones, Hector McNeill, Lambert Wickes, and John ...
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(2016-07-15)From the Seven Years’ War through the end of the American Revolution, masculinity remained a disputed marker of identity that offered minority groups opportunities to use rhetoric of manhood as a means for accessing and ...