The War Against the Pirates British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century /

• Main Authors: Gough, Barry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Borras, Charles (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Britain and the World
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; United States-History.; Military history.; World politics.; History of Britain and Ireland.; US History.; History of Military.; Political History.

Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors...