Bold Privateers: Terror, Plunder and Profit on Canada's Atlantic Coast

In war, disrupting and depleting the enemy’s supply of goods is the way to victory. During the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, armed merchant ships were licensed to cruise the seas, alone or in small convoys to chase and capture enemy cargo vessels and to attack coastal forts.

This collection of fascinating stories of the era’s notorious privateers begins with Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville who led a campaign against the Hudson’s Bay Company posts in the Far North, and a few years later aga…