Guadeloupe's commerce raiding 1796–98: Perspectives and contexts

Mariners Mirror

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 303-309

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EID: 84902616117     PISSN: 00253359     EISSN: 2049680X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00253359.1997.10656649     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. 1978. M.M.,:245 H J.K. Jenkins, The Heyday of French Privateering from Guadeloupe, 1796–98’,64–50
2. 1989. Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer Eg. a special double-number (282–83) of, LXXVI edited by Professor Jean Tarrade, under the sub-title La révolution française et les colonies.
3. 1987. Soldiers, Sugar, and Seapower:The British Expeditions to the West Indies and the War against Revolutionary France Oxford:Clarendon Press. For wide-ranging and detailed discussion of the role and general nature of such expeditions in this period, see Michael Duffy
4. Mahan, A. T., The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793–1812 (London, 1893), 1, 116
5. Archives Nationales, Paris (hereafter AN), Colonies C7a 49, fos 276–7 (comment by Thouluyres Mahé).
6. 48–50. PRO, Adm. 1/321, Letter 7. For discussion of heavy losses inflicted by the Leeward Islands Command on Guadeloupe's flotilla in this general period, including a listing of 70 raiders eliminated during 1797–98, see H.J.K. Jenkins, ‘Privateering from Guadeloupe 1794–1802’ (unpublished typescript, 1986, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, MS 86/092)
7. 3–5. For discussion of the lacunae indicated, citing archival reports etc., see Jenkins, ‘Privateering from Guadeloupe 1794–1802’
8. Knox, D. W., ed. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France (Washington 1935–38), I,336. See also PRO, Adm. 1/321, Letter 38
9. For further discussion of the number of vessels involved, with particular reference to prize-court records in AN, Colonies C7a 48, see Jenkins, ‘Privateering from Guadeloupe 1794–1802’, 30–3. Among other complications, the nationality claimed for some particular prize was not always accepted, or recorded as such, by the prize-court.
10. American Neptune, Various abuses involving disguised trade seem to have become more common at Guadeloupe when the colony's guerre de course eventually revived in post-Hugues years. For discussion of this increase, see H.J.K. Jenkins, ‘Commerce Raiding and Crisis:Guadeloupe, 1799–1802’,54 (1994), 1824
11. Courier 69–73. This sort of abuse began very early in Hugues's régime-see H.J.K. Jenkins, ‘The Case of the, 1794–98’, M.M., 76 (1990)
12. Naval Documents, 1797 See, for example, Knox (ed.),I,544, regarding alleged collusion c.-98
13. Knox. Naval Documents, I4
14. 115–6. AN, Colonies C7a 50, fo. 48. For promulgation in the prize-court, see Colonies C7a 48, fos
15. Moniteur 3 Germinal Year VII, 747
16. 282–3. AN, Colonies C7a 49, fos
17. AN, Colonies C7a 49, fo. 194.
18. 1989. Revue française d'histoire d'outremer 97–106. For detailed discussion of the Decree and its sequelae, see H.J.K. Jenkins, ‘Controversial legislation at Guadeloupe regarding trade and piracy, 1797’, LXXVI
19. Boyer-Peyreleau, E.-E., Les Antilles françaises… (Paris, 1823), III, 172
20. 1989. Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer 125–58. Anne Pérotin-Dumon ‘Révolutionnaires français et royalistes espagnols dans les Antilles’, LXXVI
21. 1986. Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer 257–65. See, for example, H.J.K. Jenkins, ‘Franco-British disagreement regarding American commerce in the eastern Caribbean, 1793–1798’, LXXIII