On The Spanish Main
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Author | : Hamilton Cochran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An account of the Spanish, Dutch, french, British, and American buccaneers who roamed the Spanished Main during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author | : John Christopher Fine |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461748844 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521088480 |
Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context.
Author | : George Alfred Henty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : |
Historical adventure tale featuring Ned Hearn, a young teenager who sails with Francis Drake, experiencing a harsh seafaring life, strange, unexplored lands; and witnessing the great naval battle between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada.
Author | : Angus Konstam |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472833791 |
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.
Author | : Herbert Strang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pablo Emilio Pérez-Mallaína Bueno |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2005-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801881831 |
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 | : René Chartrand |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2011-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849085986 |
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.
Author | : Craig S. Chapman |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2021-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1640124918 |
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 | : Howard Pyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Buccaneers |
ISBN | : |
Stories and descriptions of famous pirates and buccaneers.