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Author Murdoch, Steve

Title The terror of the seas? : Scottish maritime warfare 1513-1713 / by Steve Murdoch
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 444 pages) : illustrations
Series History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; v. 58
History of warfare ; v. 58.
Contents Scottish maritime warfare, 1513-1560 -- Letters of reprisal -- 'Peacetime' and piracy, 1560-1618 -- The 'marque fleets' of Scotland, 1618-1638 -- Scottish maritime warfare in the British civil wars, 1638-1660 -- The 'Scottish-Dutch' wars, 1665-1667 and 1672-1674 -- The Franco-Scottish wars, 1689-1687 and 1702-1713
Summary This important new book provides the first detailed and clear analysis of the Scots involvement in naval warfare during the early modern period. The lazy use by both contemporaries and some modern authors of the word piracy as a catch-all for all sorts of maritime activity obscures a complex picture of Scottish maritime warfare. Through the use of letters of marque and reprisal (rightly distinguished in this analysis) as well as dedicated Crown fleets, Scottish warfare against against a wide range of enemies are scrutinised
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Naval art and science -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century
Naval art and science -- Scotland -- History -- 17th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
Naval art and science
SUBJECT Scotland -- History, Naval -- 16th century
Scotland -- History, Naval -- 17th century
Europe -- History, Military -- 16th century
Europe -- History, Military -- 17th century
Subject Europe
Scotland
Genre/Form History
Military history
Naval history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004186347
9004186344
1283039362
9781283039369
9786613039361
6613039365