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Book Synopsis Pirates of the Spanish Main by : Hamilton Cochran
Download or read book Pirates of the Spanish Main written by Hamilton Cochran and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Spanish, Dutch, french, British, and American buccaneers who roamed the Spanished Main during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Book Synopsis Treasures of the Spanish Main by : John Christopher Fine
Download or read book Treasures of the Spanish Main written by John Christopher Fine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Early Spanish Main written by Sauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context.
Book Synopsis Disaster on the Spanish Main by : Craig S. Chapman
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.
Book Synopsis The Buccaneer's Realm by : Benerson Little
Download or read book The Buccaneer's Realm written by Benerson Little and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Under Drake's Flag written by G. A. Henty and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAdventure on the high seas as seen through the eyes of young Ned Hearne, who experiences a harsh seafaring life, visits strange lands, and witnesses the destruction of the Spanish Armada. /div
Book Synopsis Terror of the Spanish Main by : Albert Marrin
Download or read book Terror of the Spanish Main written by Albert Marrin and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the life and times of the English buccaneer, Henry Morgan, from his birth in Wales through his daring exploits in the Spanish Main to his later years in Jamaica.
Book Synopsis Mutiny on the Spanish Main by : Angus Konstam
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.
Book Synopsis The Spanish Army in North America 1700–1793 by : René Chartrand
Download or read book The Spanish Army in North America 1700–1793 written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before England established a serious presence in the New World, Spain had already established an overseas Empire. In North America, this included vast tracts of territory including most of what today comprises the states of Florida, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Illinois and California. In later years, as the British and the French came to expand their claims, they often came into conflict with the Spanish. The Spanish also played a significant part during the American Revolution, fighting against the British and drawing off forces needed to fight the Americans. This book covers all of the North American Spanish forces that fought in the campaigns of the 18th century.
Book Synopsis Spain's Men of the Sea by : Pablo Emilio Pérez-Mallaína Bueno
Download or read book Spain's Men of the Sea written by Pablo Emilio Pérez-Mallaína Bueno and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean by : David Cordingly
Download or read book Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean written by David Cordingly and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went from laying siege to laying down the law. During Britain’s war with Spain, Rogers sailed for the crown in sorties against Spanish targets in the Pacific; battled scurvy, hurricanes, and mutinies; captured a treasure galleon; and even rescued the castaway who inspired Robinson Crusoe. Appointed governor of the Bahamas in 1717, the fearless Rogers defended the island colony of King George I against plundering pirates and an attempted Spanish invasion. His resolute example led to the downfall of such notorious pirates as Blackbeard, Calico Jack, and the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. A vividly detailed and action-packed portrait of one of the early eighteenth century’s most colorful characters, Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean serves up history that’s as fascinating and gripping as any seafaring legend.
Book Synopsis Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by : Howard Pyle
Download or read book Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates written by Howard Pyle and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and descriptions of famous pirates and buccaneers.
Book Synopsis A Master on the Spanish Main by : T. L. Armstrong
Download or read book A Master on the Spanish Main written by T. L. Armstrong and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Master on the Spanish Main is the authorized biography of Burt D. Webber, Jr., a treasure salvor who has recovered millions of dollars in artifacts and trove from numerous shipwrecks in the Caribbean over a period of fifty years. Celebrated in 1978 for his discovery of the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion at Silver Shoals, he has a number of other salvage projects to his credit including the discovery of the Jesus of Nazareth, the N. S. Begona and more than thirty other lesser-known vessels. As an expatriate, living in the Dominican Republic, Burt Webber has lead an exceptional life in several venues, primarily as a successful salvor of course, but his close associations with government officials in the Dominican Republic have provided him with other opportunities for adventure, unseen and previously undisclosed. Now, in his seventh decade, he can safely elaborate on those exploits, some of which were favors performed in the interest of clients who could rely upon his wide connections in the corporate world, or the shadowy dictatorships of Central America.387 Pages... 175 Photos... 8 Maps... 7 Illustrations... Footnotes... Indexed.The author, T. L. Armstrong, continues to pursue treasure salvage on the 1715 Plate Fleet along Florida's Treasure Coast and, as a young man, worked as a diver for Real Eight, Treasure Salvors, Doubloon Salvage, New Channel Historical Survey Group, Pirate Village, and a number of other more recent contractors, coupled with experience as a commercial diver in the offshore oil field. He has coauthored several other books on sunken treasure salvage including; West of the Bull; A Hundred Giants: New Discoveries; and The Rainbow Chaser's Tricentennial Yearbook.
Download or read book One Eyed Willy written by Lawrence Philip and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born blind in the 17th century, a young boy named William endures tremendous physical and mental challenges. In order to escape a broken home and his tragic life, he sails half way around the world from London to the West Indies. Upon arriving in Barbados, William finds love followed by heartbreak. In an act of defiance and in order to give his children a better life, William vows to become the greatest pirate the world has ever seen. However, in order to do so, he will need to recover the Jewel of the Spanish Main. But can he find the treasure and keep it out of the wicked hands of those who seek it for their own nefarious plots? A wildly adventurous page-turner, One Eyed Willy will keep you in swashbuckling suspense until the very end.
Book Synopsis The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main, Or the Fiend of Blood by : Ned Buntline
Download or read book The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main, Or the Fiend of Blood written by Ned Buntline and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Spanish Main by : Matilde Asensi
Download or read book The Spanish Main written by Matilde Asensi and published by Matilde Asensi. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One destiny, the remote Caribbean isles. One dream, freedom. The sixteen-year-old Catalina Solis is bound to the Caribbean island of Margarita to live with her husband Domingo Rodríguez, when the ship is being attacked by English pirates. To save herself, she jumps off board wearing the clothes of her brother who had been travelling with her. After two years on an isolated island, she's rescued by the merchant Esteban Nevares. To escape her mentally impaired husband, she strickes a deal with Nevares to be the son he never had, Martín Nevares. Together they embark on an extraordinary adventure on the Chacona (Nevares's ship) as traders in the ports of the Caribbean and as arms smugglers for the cimmarones (free slaves) living in Spanish Mainland. This was the name in Spain's colonial times given to Venezuela, the Isthmus of Panama and part of Colombia which was a province of New Granada. Asensi's novel is very entertaining and gives us a view on a part of history that we rarely read about. It offers insight into the society of the Spanish colonies a century after Columbus discovered the New World. How people lived and struggled to survive in a rough environment. In those days, the commercial administration was established in Sevilla. Over 400.000 copies sold in Spanish by the so called 'Queen of the Spanish Adventure Fiction,' one of the top writers in Spanish language, and author of the bestseller The Last Cato
Book Synopsis Treasures of the Spanish Main by : Mike Seuberling
Download or read book Treasures of the Spanish Main written by Mike Seuberling and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You might ask, why document your estate? Why do individuals create a will? Why do individuals spend countless hours and dollars in planning their estate? For the same reason you created your will and planned your estate, documenting your estate is the last and most important step in having your affairs in order. It allows you, your executor, administrator, and beneficiaries the ability to find your assets and execute your wishes and intentions, in the event that you are incapacitated or pass away. As well, it serves as a confidential checklist giving peace of mind in knowing you have reviewed and made aware your wishes and intentions. How To Document Your Estate is a practical guide for organizing your affairs. The book shows you step by step, how to create, compile, and update one concise report for reference and due diligence in the event of an emergency. How To Document Your Estate includes countless examples and practical tips. The book is broken into sections where each segment stands alone and can be done in any order. Topics include: Estate Papers Financial Information Safekeeping Healthcare Insurance Property and Inventories Contacts How To Document Your Estate will benefit you, your beneficiaries, administrators, and executors. Whatever your age or situation, the information is priceless. Testimonials: "It's about time somebody wrote something like this. There's more to croaking than writing a will." --An Estate Attorney, Texas "I do want a copy of Steve's book for me . . . I wish I had something like that when Jim was so sick." --Mary, North Carolina The author's web site is www.estatedocumentation.com.
