Southern Netherlandish prize papers : French and British colonial commodities at sea during the 18th century

This working paper emanates from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)’s ongoing research into the Prize Papers Collection kept at the National Archives in Kew, and their significance for eighteenth-century Southern Netherlandish maritime history. This collection contains shipboard documents captured from enemy ships by the British Navy during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1714), the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) and the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). These unexplored sources offer the shipboard perspective of sailors circulating on the seas between rivalling empires during wa... Mehr ...