Peter Bon had a charm, a doctorate on his CV and experience of disasters, yet one slip began to unravel an extraordinary ...

On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress established a naval force, hoping that a small fleet of privateers could attack British commerce and offset British sea power. Get up-to-date Navy ...

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Under his grandfather's will (1798), written after the death of his father (1795), he inherited the Jamaican estate [and the enslaved people upon it] and a mercantile fortune (though in trust to his ...