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Book Review: Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution

Volo's grasp of nautical idiom is at best tenuous, and he has problems with foreign names and titles. He bestows knighthoods and peerages indiscriminately (Marriot Arbuthnot was never a "Sir," and Thomas Graves did not get his barony until 1794) and misidentifies several important British figures. The"Adm. Lord Augustus Howe" referred to on page 182 did not exist. (Adm. Richard Lord Howe assumed the family title when his elder brother, Gen. George Augustus, Lord Howe, was killed in the French and Indian War.) A list of British admirals who commanded the squadron in North America (relegated to an endnote on page 278) incorrectly asserts that Samuel Hood succeeded Thomas Graves in that position and omits Rear Adm. Robert Digby, who did. The French fare as badly. The Chevalier Destouches commands at the wrong battle, [238] and Adm. Pierre-Andre de Suffren Saint-Tropez is consistently referred to as "Admiral Saint Tropez de Suffern. " In his introduction the author tells us that he "hopes the reader wi II find the [book] useful, comprehensive, and precise." [9] It falls seriously short on all three counts.