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Mutiny on the Spanish Main

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472833813
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Mutiny on the Spanish Main written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A vivid account of a forgotten chapter of British naval history.' Dan Snow, Historian, TV Presenter and Broadcaster The true story of one of the most notorious mutinies in naval history, which provided inspiration for Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin and C.S. Forester's Hornblower novels. In 1797 the 32-gun Royal Navy frigate HMS Hermione was serving in the Caribbean, at the forefront of Britain's bitter sea war against Spain and Revolutionary France. Its commander, the sadistic and mercurial Captain Hugh Pigot ruled through terror, flogging his men mercilessly and pushing them beyond the limits of human endurance. On the night of 21 September 1797, past breaking point and drunk on stolen rum, the crew rebelled, slaughtering Pigot and nine of his officers in the bloodiest mutiny in the history of the Royal Navy. Handing the ship over to the Spanish, the crew fled, sparking a manhunt that would last a decade. Seeking to wipe clean this stain on its name, the Royal Navy pursued the traitorous mutineers relentlessly, hunting them across the globe, and, in 1801, seized the chance to recover its lost ship in one of the most daring raids of the Age of Fighting Sail. Anchored in a heavily fortified Venezuelan harbour, the Hermione – now known as the Santa Cecilia – was retaken in a bold night-time action, stolen out from under the Spanish guns. Back in British hands, the Hermione was renamed once more – its new identity a stark warning to would-be mutineers: Retribution. Drawing on letters, reports, ships' logs, and memoirs of the period, as well as previously unpublished Spanish sources, Angus Konstam intertwines extensive research with a fast-paced but balanced account to create a fascinating retelling of one of the most notorious events in the history of the Royal Navy, and its extraordinary, wide-ranging aftermath.

Mutiny on the Spanish Main

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472833791
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Mutiny on the Spanish Main written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers. Though her crew handed her over to the Spanish, Hermione was subsequently recaptured in a daring raid on a Caribbean port two years later. Drawing on letters, reports, ship's logs, and memoirs of the period, as well as previously unpublished Spanish sources, Angus Konstam intertwines extensive research with a fast-paced but balanced account of the mutiny and its consequences.

The Spanish Civil War at Sea

Author : Michael Alpert
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 1526764377
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Civil War at Sea written by Michael Alpert and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 underlined the importance of the sea as the supply route to both General Franco's insurgents and the Spanish Republic. There were attempted blockades by Franco as well as attacks by his Italian and German allies against legitimate neutral, largely British, merchant shipping bound for Spanish Republican ports and challenges to the Royal Navy, which was obliged to maintain a heavy presence in the area. The conflict provoked splits in British public opinion. Events at sea both created and reflected the international tensions of the latter 1930s, when the policy of appeasement of Germany and Italy dissuaded Britain from taking action against those countries’ activities in Spain, except to participate in a largely ineffective naval patrol to try to prevent the supply of war material to both sides. The book is based on original documentary sources in both Britain and Spain and is intended for the general reader as well as students and academics interested in the history of the 1930s, in naval matters and in the Spanish Civil War.

Ramage's Mutiny

Author : Dudley Pope
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1590135490
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ramage's Mutiny written by Dudley Pope and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Ramage recklessly attempts to free the Jocasta, a British ship, from the Spanish Main stronghold of Santa Cruz. A vicious mutiny has left the Jocasta open to capture by Spain, but sailing the frigate Calypso, Ramage will stop at nothing to rescue the imprisoned vessel, even if it means inciting another mutiny on board his own ship.

On the Spanish Main

Author : John Masefield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book On the Spanish Main written by John Masefield and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mutiny on the Amistad

Author : Howard Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281324
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Mutiny on the Amistad written by Howard Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of the ship by an American naval vessel near Montauk, Long Island, the arrest of the Africans in Connecticut, and the Spanish protest against the violation of their property rights created an international controversy. The Amistad affair united Lewis Tappan and other abolitionists who put the "law of nature" on trial in the United States by their refusal to accept a legal system that claimed to dispense justice while permitting artificial distinctions based on race or color. The mutiny resulted in a trial before the U.S. Supreme Court that pitted former President John Quincy Adams against the federal government. Jones vividly recaptures this compelling drama--the most famous slavery case before Dred Scott--that climaxed in the court's ruling to free the captives and allow them to return to Africa.

Disaster on the Spanish Main

Author : Craig S. Chapman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124918
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Disaster on the Spanish Main written by Craig S. Chapman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

American Sanctuary

Author : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525563636
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book American Sanctuary written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request for his extradition. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was hanged. Adams’s catastrophic miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by Robbins’s failure to receive his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury by an American court. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in riveting detail the story of how the Robbins affair, amid the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800, inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams’s defeat and Thomas Jefferson’s election as the third president of the United States. Robbins’s martyrdom led directly to the country’s historic decision to grant political asylum to foreign refugees—a major achievement in fulfilling the promise of American independence.

Hurrah! for the Spanish main

Author : Robert Leighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Hurrah! for the Spanish main written by Robert Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Naval Mutinies of 1798

Author : Philip MacDougall
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 1399044613
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Naval Mutinies of 1798 written by Philip MacDougall and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fought war against revolutionary France. Set in motion by the Society of United Irishmen, an underground organization with links to Paris, the rebellion was eventually crushed by an overwhelming force of arms. In this new, dramatic account, Philip MacDougall shines a light on a little covered aspect of this history: the United Irish plot to capture a number of British warships and the planned use of those vessels in support of the rebellion that broke out in 1798. The means by which those ships were to be taken, not by direct external attack but by mutinous intrigue directed from on board, is fully explored. While ships blockading the French port of Brest returned to re-victual in Cawsand Bay, with many of the officers on shore leave, it was an ideal time for the plotting of mutinies. United Irishman alongside English and Scottish republicans could safely mix with those on other ships to develop a unified strategy. This book offers a micro study of how the planned mutiny plot developed and was co-ordinated. Personalities, cliques and idealists are seen as taking leading roles, with attention given to the motivating issues that lay behind those risk takers who knew that failure would result in likely hanging from the yardarm. Based on research from the National Archives, contemporary newspaper reports and the detailed hand written minutes of the courts martial held upon those identified as rebel leaders and some of their supporters (containing the actual words of the people of the lower deck) this is a full and balanced account of the plot which, if successful, would have re-written history.

Mutiny and Its Bounty

Author : Patrick J. Murphy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170289
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Mutiny and Its Bounty written by Patrick J. Murphy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallels mutinies in today's business organizations with the shipboard rebellions of old. 15,000 first printing.

Mutiny and Leadership

Author : Keith Grint
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192645404
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Mutiny and Leadership written by Keith Grint and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever leadership emerges within a group, there will be resistance to that leadership. Discontent may manifest in a number of ways, and action will always be determined by factors such as resource, numbers, time, space, and the legitimacy of the resistance. What, then, turns discontent into mutiny? Mutiny is often associated with the occasional mis-leadership of the masses by politically inspired hotheads, or a spontaneous and unusually romantic gesture of defiance against a uniquely overbearing military superior. In reality it is seldom either and usually has far more mundane origins, not in the absolute poverty of the subordinates but in the relative poverty of the relationships between leaders and the led in a military situation. The roots of mutiny lie in the leadership skills of a small number of leaders, and what transforms that into a constructive dialogue, or a catastrophic disaster, depends on how the leaders of both sides mobilise their supporters and their networks. Using contemporary leadership theory to cast a critical light on an array of mutinies throughout history, this book suggests we consider mutiny as a permanent possibility that is further encouraged or discouraged in some contexts. From mutinies in ancient Roman and Greek armies to those that toppled the German and Russian states and forced governments to face their own disastrous policies and changed them forever, this book covers an array of cases across land, sea, and air that still pose a threat to military establishments today. The critical theoretical line also puts into sharp relief the assumption that oftentimes people have little choice in how they respond to circumstances not of their own making. If mutineers could choose to resist what they saw as tyranny, then so can we.

On the Spanish Main

Author : Herbert Strang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Spanish Main written by Herbert Strang and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of the Spanish Main

Author : Mowbray Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Spanish Main written by Mowbray Morris and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blackbeard

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470309202
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Blackbeard written by Angus Konstam and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough, exciting examination of 18th-century pirate life,with wonderful details." --Publishers Weekly "Interesting and exciting . . . a thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of an interesting life and interesting era." --Booklist The definitive biography of history'smost fearsome and famous pirate Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. As unforgettable as his savage career was, much of Blackbeard's life has been shrouded in mystery--until now. Drawing on vivid descriptions of Blackbeard's attacks from his rare surviving victims, pirate expert Angus Konstam traces Blackbeard's career from its beginnings to his final defeat in a tremendous sea battle near his base at Ocracoke Island. Presenting dramatic accounts of the pirate's very effective tactics and his reputation for cruelty, Konstam offers a fascinating examination of the life and business of piracy and the lure of this brutal and bloody trade.

The Genesis of Rebellion

Author : Steven Pfaff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108152023
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of Rebellion written by Steven Pfaff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at sea as microcosms; Petri dishes in which larger themes of authority, conflict and order emerge. In this fascinating book, Pfaff and Hechter explore mutiny as a manifestation of collective action and contentious politics. The authors use narrative evidence and statistical analysis to trace the processes by which governance failed, social order decayed, and seamen mobilized. Their findings highlight the complexities of governance, showing that it was not mere deprivation, but how seamen interpreted that deprivation, which stoked the grievances that motivated rebellion. Using the Age of Sail as a lens to examine topics still relevant today - what motivates people to rebel against deprivation and poor governance - The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail helps us understand the emergence of populism and rejection of the establishment.

The Sack of Panamá

Author : Peter Earle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429954892
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Sack of Panamá written by Peter Earle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Henry Morgan's capture of the city of Panamá in 1671 is seen as one of the most audacious military operations in history. In The Sack of Panamá , Peter Earle masterfully retells this classic story, combining thorough research with an emphasis on the battles that made Morgan a pirate legend. Morgan's raid was the last in a series of brutal attacks on Spanish possessions in the Caribbean, all sanctioned by the British crown. Earle recounts the five violent years leading up to the raid, then delivers a detailed account of Morgan's march across enemy territory, as his soldiers contended with hunger, tropical diseases, and possible ambushes from locals. He brings a unique dimension to the story by devoting nearly as much space to the Spanish victims as to the Jamican privateers who were the aggressors. The book covers not only the scandalous events in the Colonial West Indies, but also the alarmed reactions of diplomats and statesmen in Madrid and London. While Morgan and his men were laying siege to Panamá , the simmering hostilities between the two nations resulted in vicious political infighting that rivaled the military battles in intensity. With a wealth of colorful characters and international intrigue, The Sack of Panamá is a painstaking history that doubles as a rip-roaring adventure tale.