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The Whaleboat War was a series of actions fought by American privateers in the aftermath of the British victory Battle of Long Island and in the context of the subsequent Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga. The Americans used whaleboats rowed from the New Jersey into New York Bay and from Connecticut into Long Island Sound to capture and disrupt British commercial shipping, occasionally making raids on the coast of British occupied Long Island.[1][2][3][4][5] They quickly sold their prizes, dividing their profits with the financier (persons or company) and the state.[6]

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References

  1. ^ Burrows, Edwin G. (2008-11-11). Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War. Basic Books. ISBN 9780786727049.
  2. ^ Rose, Alexander (2007-12-18). Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307418708.
  3. ^ "The whaleboat war". www.doublegv.com. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  4. ^ Davies, Wallace Evan (1939). "Privateering Around Long Island During the Revolution". New York History. 20 (3): 283–294. ISSN 0146-437X. JSTOR 23134696.
  5. ^ Nathaniel Philbrick, "Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution," (New York: Penguin Books, 2016), p. 237
  6. ^ "The whaleboat war". www.doublegv.com. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
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