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Challenges in their respective countries. That was part of the Navy League Sea air and space composition held at the National Harbor earlier this month. Okay good afternoon, everybody. Well let folks continue to wander in here. The music stopped and the mic went hot. Im assuming its time to start. Good afternoon and welcome to the last panel of the first day but i think in my opinion its the most distinguished panel of the day. And certainly its the most vital. Which is the international navys panel. We have the unique opportunity to hear from leaders of our partner navies, in this case three, their perspectives, challenges and efforts in in very dynamic and changing Global Environment which were all living in now and which has been discussed at some of the earlier panels today. Im rear admiral frank morely. And i ....
Privateering in the american. Just a little more background on me. Ive been a full time writer since about 2007. Most of my books are in american history, usually have a maritime component. Ive spoken at the archives a number of times in the past. Of the books include the history of whaling in america for fortune, an empire, a history of fur, trade in america, black flags, blue waters, the epic history of americas notorious pirates and my last book, a furious scar on the history of american hurricanes. But today i am here to talk about privateering and American Revolution. It was late the day on june 3rd, 1780, when salem captain Jonathan Harrod and his privateer, the pickering, were heading for the friendly port of bilbao, spain. The british achilles, however, stood in the way nobody would have faulted had he fled in the face of this superior foe. While the pickering h ....