Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution (Program) 

The number of ships and people involved is astounding. I had the impression that there were fewer than couple of hundred involved and the early Colonial Navy only had four ships in the onset. I teach in St. Thomas, VI, an island near St. Eustacius, important in the early part of the war for General Washington. It was wiped out as a commercial port by the English in 1781. Many of those people came to the Danish colony of Charlotte Amalie (St. Thomas) and then we grew as a commercial port with the elimination of our chief economic competitor.