Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1536

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1218

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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1596

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Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

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Category : Cosmetics
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: United States
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Category : Cosmetics
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Alien property
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Considers legislation to revise war claims payment provisions regarding American held foreign debts and to authorize return of expropriated vested U.S. assets of foreign nationals.

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Languages : en
Pages : 88

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 904

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Author: Faye M. Kert
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421417480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The first book to tell the tale of the War of 1812 from the privateers’ perspective. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award of the North American Society for Oceanic History During the War of 1812, most clashes on the high seas involved privately owned merchant ships, not official naval vessels. Licensed by their home governments and considered key weapons of maritime warfare, these ships were authorized to attack and seize enemy traders. Once the prizes were legally condemned by a prize court, the privateers could sell off ships and cargo and pocket the proceeds. Because only a handful of ship-to-ship engagements occurred between the Royal Navy and the United States Navy, it was really the privateers who fought—and won—the war at sea. In Privateering, Faye M. Kert introduces readers to U.S. and Atlantic Canadian privateers who sailed those skirmishing ships, describing both the rare captains who made money and the more common ones who lost it. Some privateers survived numerous engagements and returned to their pre-war lives; others perished under violent circumstances. Kert demonstrates how the romantic image of pirates and privateers came to obscure the dangerous and bloody reality of private armed warfare. Building on two decades of research, Privateering places the story of private armed warfare within the overall context of the War of 1812. Kert highlights the economic, strategic, social, and political impact of privateering on both sides and explains why its toll on normal shipping helped convince the British that the war had grown too costly. Fascinating, unfamiliar, and full of surprises, this book will appeal to historians and general readers alike.