Author: Stuart Vaughan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465317147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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A band of Indians attacked Hatfield, Massachusetts, on September 19, 1677, burning, looting, and killing. They carried off seventeen people, mostly women and children. Their destination, on foot, was Canada. Among them were Martha Waite, pregnant, and her three girls, ages two, four, and six. Captives, 1677, the story of this first Indian/Canadian kidnapping, is a stirring novel of courageous survival, love, and rescue. It follows the captives terrible ordeal and the rescue mission of Marthas husband Benjamin Waite and his friend Stephen Jennings from Hatfield, to Count Frontenacs court in Quebec, and back to Massachusetts with the captives triumphal return. A forgotten saga of American heroism is brought to vivid life in Captives, 1677.
Author: Emma Lewis Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: Nabil Matar
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004264507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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British Captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760 provides the first study of British captives in the North African Atlantic and Mediterranean, from the reign of Elizabeth I to George II. Based on extensive archival research in the United Kingdom, Nabil Matar furnishes the names of all captives while examining the problems that historians face in determining the numbers of early modern Britons in captivity. Matar also describes the roles which the monarchy, parliament, trading companies, and churches played (or did not play) in ransoming captives. He questions the emphasis on religious polarization in piracy and shows how much financial constraints, royal indifference, and corruption delayed the return of captives. As rivarly between Britain and France from 1688 on dominated the western Mediterranean and Atlantic, Matar concludes by showing how captives became the casus belli that justified European expansion.
Author: Emma Lewis Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258035549
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Francis McGee Thompson
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Author: Emma Lewis Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556132575
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Emma Lewis Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788445903
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Emma Lewis Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258140458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: Emma Lewis Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788445897
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Samuel Gardner Drake
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Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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