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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolu Walter Wick and New York cheesecake areThe heroic story of the founding of the U. S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation's character above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. In Rebels at Sea, best selling historian Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission, and contends that privateers, as they were called, were in