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| Preface | [vii] |
| Carlo Zeno: Hero of the Venetian Republic | [1] |
| Sir Francis Drake: Rover and Sea Ranger | [23] |
| Sir Walter Raleigh: Persecutor of the Spaniards | [53] |
| Jean Bart: The Scourge of the Dutch | [83] |
| Du Guay-Trouin: The Great French “Blue” | [113] |
| Edward England: Terror of the South Seas | [137] |
| Woodes Rogers: The Bristol Mariner | [153] |
| Fortunatus Wright: The Most Hated Privateersman of the Mediterranean Sea | [173] |
| George Walker: Winner of the Gamest Sea Fight of the English Channel | [199] |
| John Paul Jones: The Founder of the American Navy | [239] |
| Captain Silas Talbot: Staunch Privateersman of New England | [283] |
| Captain “Josh” Barney: The Irrepressible Yankee | [299] |
| Robert Surcouf: The “Sea Hound” from St. Malo | [319] |
| Lafitte: Privateer, Pirate, and Terror of the Gulf of Mexico | [341] |
| Raphael Semmes: Despoiler of American Commerce | [373] |
| El Capitan | [393] |
| Retrospect | [397] |
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| “Again the cannon made the splinters fly” (See page [273]) | [Frontispiece] |
| Zeno’s Fleet | [18] |
| Sir Francis Drake | [28] |
| Drake’s Greatest Victory on the Spanish Main | [44] |
| Young Raleigh and a companion listening to tales of the Spanish Main | [55] |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | [60] |
| Jean Bart | [86] |
| “Jean Bart led his boarders over the side of the Dutch vessel” | [108] |
| Combat between Du Guay-Trouin and Van Wassenaer | [135] |
| “‘Left us engaged with barbarous and inhuman enemies’” | [146] |
| “The boarders were repulsed with great slaughter” | [193] |
| Action between the “Glorioso” and the “King George” and “Prince Frederick” under George Walker | [231] |
| American Privateer taking possession of a Prize | [239] |
| “Began to hull the ‘Drake’ below the water-line” | [261] |
| “They swarmed into the forecastle amidst fierce cheers” | [277] |
| “Talbot, himself, at the head of his entire crew, came leaping across the side” | [289] |
| American Privateer capturing two English Ships | [298] |
| “Surcouf scanned her carefully through his glass” | [336] |
| Raphael Semmes | [376] |
| “The men were shouting wildly, as each projectile took effect” | [386] |