What did the United States do to hasten the final demise of piracy in
coastal and Caribbean waters in the early 19th century? I would like
to see a two or three paragraph summary, but, please, something a lot
less dense than the following account:
http://www.kun.nl/gap/papers/gapwp04-1.pdf |
Clarification of Question by
nautico-ga
on
10 Jun 2004 07:09 PDT
I realize that the emergence of the nation-state and the fact that
nations became increasingly concerned that they'd not be able to
engage in safe trade by sea, if piracy were not eliminated, provided
the background for the demise of piracy worldwide. What I'm looking
for, though, is an account of any military or otherwise aggressive
steps that the United States in particular took to bring an end to
this threat on our littoral.
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Request for Question Clarification by
markj-ga
on
11 Jun 2004 03:05 PDT
nautico --
After spending some time on your question, I find that I need some
clarification in order to provide the kind of focused, brief answer
that you are looking for.
Widespread, systematic piracy in the Caribbean by "buccaneers" and
others had largely disappeared rather early in the 18th century,
although I have found very brief (one paragraph) descriptions of a
couple of seemingly isolated U.S. military actions against pirates
there in the early 19th century. Are you interested in those
accounts?
The focus of U.S. military action in the early 19th century was on the
separate problem of state-sponsored piracy in the Atlantic and
Mediterranean. I can provide a description of the U.S. military
actions that essentially ended that major threat to U.S. ships and
their crews and to world commerce in general. However, that threat
was not so much to our littoral as to our operation on the high seas.
Is this "big picture" what you are looking for, or are you interested
in military actions a little closer to home, which I haven't yet come
across but may well have occurred in more isolated circumstances?
markj-ga
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Clarification of Question by
nautico-ga
on
11 Jun 2004 05:41 PDT
Mark --
Concur with your remarks re the absence of major piracy along our
littoral in the early 19th century. In the meantime, I've found the
summary I was looking for at
http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad.htm
and so am closing this question.
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