Download or read book A British Privateer in the American Revolution (Expanded, Annotated) written by Henry R. Howland and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1902, these letters from a British privateer had lain undiscovered in a chest for a century. They tell the tale of the privateer "Vengeance" during the American Revolution.Privateers were essentially legal pirates, given papers that allowed them to plunder merchant ships during wartime. The daring and humor exhibited by the correspondent of the letters is highly entertaining. The ultimate fate of the "Vengeance" has never been discovered.