Connecticut Pirates & Privateers:: Treasure and Treachery in the Constitution State

by Wick Griswold

Book Overview

The waters, inlets and islands of Connecticut once swarmed with fabled corsairs like Captain Kidd and Blackbeard who may have buried their booty in Constitution State soil. In colonial times and through the nineteenth century, over one hundred privateers used the Connecticut River and waterways as a home port, influencing the geopolitics of the time. During the Revolutionary War, the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold attempted to destroy the state's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626199213
• ISBN13: 9781626199217
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"