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Author: Frank R. Stockton
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Category : Buccaneers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Frank R. Stockton
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Category : Buccaneers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Mowbray Morris
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Author: Craig S. Chapman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640124918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533
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Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to seize control of the Spanish West Indies that ended in ghastly failure. Thirty-four years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, a significant force of American soldiers deployed overseas for the first time in history. Colonial volunteers, 4,000 strong, joined 9,000 British soldiers and 15,000 British sailors in a bold amphibious campaign against the key port of Cartagena de Indias. From its first chapter, Disaster on the Spanish Main reveals a virtually unknown adventure, engrosses with the escalating conflict, and leaves the reader with an appreciation for the struggles and sacrifices of the 13,000 soldiers, sailors, and marines who died trying to conquer part of Spain's New World empire. Disaster on the Spanish Main breaks new ground on the West Indies expedition in style, scope, and perspective and uncovers the largely untold American side of the story.
Author: John Christopher Fine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461748844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure," Fine writes. In the 1600s and 1700s, Spain dominated the oceans with its fleet of galleons. Coming to the New World, these ships filled their holds with gold and silver and treasures beyond imagining. The seaway between Spain and the New World was dubbed The Golden Highway. On their journeys back across the seas, many were wrecked on reefs or destroyed by hurricanes. The watery depths now hold their treasures. Today, treasure divers seek their fortunes by attempting--sometimes successfully, sometimes fatally--to retrieve these hordes of riches. In Treasures of the Spanish Main, readers relive each voyage of long ago as well as witness the modern wreck diver's efforts to extract their secrets. Included are: The 1622 fleet * The Concepcion * The Maravillas * The Shipwreck off Jupiter Beach * The San Jose * the 1715 Fleet * and the 1733 Fleet The voyages of centuries ago come alive with Fine's excellent historical detail. Readers will experience the wild storms and the results of unfortunate choices made by long-ago sailors. The eccentric treasure hunters of today, along with those of the past, create a mosaic of suspense and drama on the high seas. A must for everyone interested in pirates, treasure, sailing, history, or just plain fun.
Author: Sauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521088480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context.
Author: Hamilton Cochran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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An account of the Spanish, Dutch, french, British, and American buccaneers who roamed the Spanished Main during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher: London : Blackie
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Category : Spanish Main
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Author: Pablo Emilio Pérez-Mallaína Bueno
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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This book should appeal to all aficionados of the romance of the sea as well as to specialists in Spanish and Latin American colonial history.--Benjamin Keen, author of A History of Latin America
Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108078044
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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An 1859 account of a journey through the Caribbean and Central America by one of the most celebrated Victorian authors.
Author: Benerson Little
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612343619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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In 1674, it is three years since Henry Morgan’s pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buccaneers and their French counterparts, the filibusters, will seize the opportunity of material gain presented by the far-flung and failing Spanish Empire. And Spain will produce its own notorious pirates, whose depredations against the English and French will become legend. These men of opportunistic calculation and desperate courage live in a wilder, larger, and richer time and place than any other frontier in modern history—the Spanish Main. Unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, unabashedly, they will take to the peaceful seas for riches by force of arms. The world will witness piracy on a grand scale. While Benerson Little’s previous work showed brilliantly how pirates actually plied their trade, The Buccaneer’s Realm focuses on their cultural and physical environments. It describes not merely their deeds but their world—the New World of the Spanish Main and its many peoples, freedoms, dangers, and exploits that are the foundation of the Americas. A detailed and lively description of pirate life, it will especially appeal to readers with an interest in maritime, naval, military, and colonial history, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and armchair adventurers.
