The War Against the Pirates

Barry Gough is a Fellow of Kings College London, UK. A noted authority on British sea power, he is the author of twenty books on the maritime foundations of imperial history, and has won the Mountbatten Literary Award for Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace Before Armageddon (2014). Past president of the North American Society for Oceanic History, he was editor of The American Neptune: Maritime History & Arts. Charles Borras is a lawyer who also holds a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.  He graduated from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law in 1993 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1995.  He later worked in the House of Commons of Canada as Special Assistant to the Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo from 1998 to 2001.  Charles published an article, “Video Surveillance in the Ontario Workplace,” with Dr Franklin Ramsoomair in 2005.

Chapter 1: Prologue; Piracy in the Historical Literature.- Chapter 2: Cockpit of Empires.- Chapter 3: The Law of  Piracy.- Chapter 4: Crossroads of the American Seas: Gulf, Cuba, Puerto Rico.- Chapter 5: Royal Navy at Work.- Chapter 6: US Navy Operations.- Chapter 7:               Commodore Porter and the Fajardo Affair.- Chapter 8: Common Cause:  Royal Navy  and US Navy Operations.- Chapter 9: Conclusion:  The Emergent Alliance.- Appendix 1: Chronology of Invasions of Cuba, 1812 -1850.- Appendix  2: Chronology of Invasions of Puerto Rico, 1800-1850.- Appendix 3: Sailing orders to Commodore Porter 1 February 1823.