Galley Captain
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The Venetian Galley Captain Book One In Service Of The Doge
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Author : William Aus
language : en
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Release Date : 2006-07-31
The Venetian Galley Captain Book One In Service Of The Doge written by William Aus and has been published by PublishAmerica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-31 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Venice is the sea power of the Mediterranean. Her Navy is the key. Her power is dependent on its use. This is the tale of one man, Cosimo Congardé, in love, war, and espionage. He is the Venetian galley captain and in his own words you learn of his progress from the captain of one galley to the leader of a wing in a squadron of the time. The effects of the new technology, ship-killing guns and the interdependence of the older weapons are seen through his eyes. The Republic has the best intelligence service of the day and Cosimo has managed to run amok of it. Battling the enemy, the admiralty, the master counterspy, aided by his crews and captains, while pursuing a lost love, this is the first of The Venetian Galley Captain series. So strap on your sword and join the adventure.
Galley Captain
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Author : Peter Glassborow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-07
Galley Captain written by Peter Glassborow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-07 with categories.
In the Meditteranean Sea thousands of years there is a terrible war that has raged on land and at sea for decades. Philip is the captain of a fighting galley in this war. He has worked his way up from marine to sergeant to captain, surviving numerous battles and losing many friends on the way. For a while he was enslaved and chained to the rower's bench on an enemy galley. He has fought battles at sea and on land becoming one of the most famous fighters that his people have. The rich and powerful court him, seeing a way to earn favour with their gods if Philip is their friend. He enjoys the favours that his fame bring him, money, influence and women. The woman he wants most is Ellesmere. She is from a wealthy family and Philip has had her for one night, now he wants her permanently. Although he wants her for his wife, is she after him for his money?The war suddenly gets worse for Philip and his people. A massive combined army of their enemies invades. Philp and others are formed into a naval regiment to reinforce the army. As the army sets off to battle the enemies fleets are also coming.Philip is destined to fight in two great battles-one on land and one at sea. Although Philip and his comrades are confident of a final victory Philip has heard rumours of traitors amongst his people. Are these people and some of the rich trying to aid the invaders by undermining the defence?As Philip and his comrades meet the enemy in great battles on land and sea they do not know that their enemies have changed the way they fight, and have a secret weapon that might change everything.The difference between victory and enslavement depends on the outcome of these two battles, and Philip is deeply involved in both.
The Venetian Galley Captain
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Author : William Aus
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2006-07
The Venetian Galley Captain written by William Aus and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07 with Fiction categories.
Venice is the sea power of the Mediterranean. Her Navy is the key. Her power is dependent on its use. This is the tale of one man, Cosimo CongardA(c), in love, war, and espionage. He is the Venetian galley captain and in his own words you learn of his progress from the captain of one galley to the leader of a wing in a squadron of the time. The effects of the new technology, ship-killing guns and the interdependence of the older weapons are seen through his eyes. The Republic has the best intelligence service of the day and Cosimo has managed to run amok of it. Battling the enemy, the admiralty, the master counterspy, aided by his crews and captains, while pursuing a lost love, this is the first of The Venetian Galley Captain series. So strap on your sword and join the adventure.
The Missing Ship The Log Of The Ouzel Galley
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Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
The Missing Ship The Log Of The Ouzel Galley written by William Henry Giles Kingston and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Missing Ship: The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley" by William Henry Giles Kingston. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Adventure Galley Volume 1
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Author : Marie-Helene Therrien
language : en
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Release Date : 2020-09-24
The Adventure Galley Volume 1 written by Marie-Helene Therrien and has been published by Vanguard Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with categories.
In 1674, Captain Kidd aboard the Adventure Galley, narrowly escaped the attack of Captain Henry Morgan, a privateer who returned to the Caribbean after a few years of captivity in England, at the request of the Queen of Spain, for storming Panama City with more than 1,000 men. Henry Morgan, a poor navigator but an excellent strategist, had a reputation for being the cruelest pirate of his time, but Charles II, King of England, nevertheless decided to appoint him a knight. Henry Morgan plundered many treasures, but mutineers will steal the most precious he has ever possessed. This novel, based on real events, evokes Captains Kidd and Morgan's lives, leading readers on a hectic adventure.
Galley Slave
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Author : Jean Marteilhe
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2010-06-14
Galley Slave written by Jean Marteilhe and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-14 with History categories.
This remarkable memoir tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, a Protestant condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion, who, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, attempted, like so many French Huguenots, to escape to the more sympathetic Protestant countries bordering France. In 1700, heading through the Ardennes towards Charleroi, he was captured by French Dragoons and thrown into gaol.In 1707 he then found himself, like so many Huguenots, condemned to serve in the French Mediterranean galleys. Little is known of life as a galley slave on these oared vessels. Certainly no accounts have come down to us from ancient Greece or Rome, though a little is known from the time of the Crusades. So Marteilhes racy account represents the only authentic record of the miseries of a galley slave who experienced all the horrors of whips and chains and the dreaded bastinado—foot whipping.For six years he pulled his oar, often seeing friends and co-religionists lashed—sometimes to death—under the whips of the overseers. He himself sustained almost fatal injuries in a bloody engagement with the British off the mouth of the Thames before being released under a general amnesty in 1713.Galley Slave brings vividly to life the sufferings and conditions on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century galleys and is a unique and unforgettable account.
The Levant Voyage Of The Blackham Galley 1696 1698
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Author : John Looker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022
The Levant Voyage Of The Blackham Galley 1696 1698 written by John Looker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Mediterranean Region categories.
This volume publishes for the first time, the journal kept by John Looker (?1670--1715) recording his service as ship's surgeon on the Blackham Galley, a London-built merchantman on its second trading voyage to the Levant, between December 1696 and March 1698. Preserved in the Caird Library of the National Maritime Museum, Looker's 'Journall' describes his experiences on the voyage from the point at which he joined the ship at Gravesend, to March 1698, when the journal breaks off abruptly in mid-sentence when the ship was off the Kentish 'Narrows'. John Looker was a Londoner, brought up in one of the parishes to the east of the City which furnished large numbers of mariners to the English sea-borne trades. He served an apprenticeship to a London barber-surgeon, and became a Freeman of the Company of Barber-Surgeons. His fifteen months of service on board the Blackham Galley appears to have been his only employment at sea, but his ready knowledge of maritime ways and language, which are apparent from the first pages of his 'Journall', make it more than likely that he came from a seafaring family. Subsequent to his voyage, he married, raised a family, practiced in London as a surgeon, and acquired land in East Anglia. He died at Bath in 1715. Looker's 'Journall' divides naturally into three parts. The Blackham Galley's outward and homeward voyages were largely without incident. The time spent by the Blackham Galley in Turkish waters, covers its voyage from Smyrna to Constantinople, where the ship stayed for a month, and then returned to Smyrna. Captain Newnam's ill-advised and disastrous attempt at privateering in Ottoman waters on the return journey to Smyrna, led to the detention of his vessel at Smyrna under a double interdict from the English ambassador at the Porte and from the Ottoman authorities. Looker's account of the Blackham Galley's enforced stay in Smyrna furnishes a vigorous and detailed account of social life in the international merchant community, as well as portside life seen 'from below', with its taverns and prostitutes, and the activities and frequent 'debauches' of an increasingly bored and fractious crew. Looker's record also provides interesting detail of his professional approach to treatment of the illnesses, accidents and occasional deaths of members of the company of his own and other ships anchored off Smyrna.
Galley Sergeant
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Author : Peter Glassborow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-16
Galley Sergeant written by Peter Glassborow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-16 with categories.
Phillip is a soldier in a Mediterranean land thousands of years ago. Although born the son of a farmer, he enjoys being a soldier more. To earn more money he leaves his family and enlists as a marine on a fighting galley. The galley captain is an aristocrat too arrogant to learn his trade. The galley master is a pot-bellied, stubby legged merchant who constantly argues with the officer. The galley sergeant is a brand new marine who bribed his way into the position.In Phillip's first major sea fight the officer and sergeant are killed and Phillip finds himself instantly promoted to galley sergeant. A new officer is posted to captain the galley, and under him things improve. Enemy galleys are captured and the Cats-Head crew gets part of the bounty paid for their capture. Phillip is sent on an ill-fated expedition to capture an enemy port. Captured he becomes a slave. Now he is a rower, chained to a bench and worked to exhastion. In a sea fight his galley is rammed and sunk, but he manages to survive.On land Phillip is captured and sold back into slavery. He is now one of the rowers for a king who builds and sells war galleys, while secretly trying to develop terrible weapons. One night the slaves break out of their compound and attack the king's palace. Seizing a boat Phillip and some others sail for home. One of the freed slaves is an officer and takes Phillip to his home. There Phillip mixes with the aristocracy for the first time, and finds there is a woman lusting after him. Phillip goes to his home and finds his brother has taken both Philips wife, and his position in the family.His squadron leader promotes him. Turning his back for good on his family and farm Phillip sets out to make a career of fighting at sea.
Pennsylvania Archives
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Author : Samuel Hazard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Pennsylvania Archives written by Samuel Hazard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Pennsylvania categories.
Off Armageddon Reef
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Author : David Weber
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-05-06
Off Armageddon Reef written by David Weber and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-06 with Fiction categories.
Here is the saga of humanity reduced, by an implacable alien enemy, to inhabiting a single colony on the distant world of Safehold. To avoid drawing the attention of the enemy through the busy signals of an industrial civilization, the human rulers of Safehold have taken an extraordinary measure. With mind control and hidden high technology, they have built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, one designed to keep Safehold society medieval and unnoticed forever. After disagreement about the wisdom and justice of this course, the dissenters were ruthlessly eliminated. Centuries have passed and now, in a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android initiates a rebirth set in motion centuries before. A rebirth that will provide the only remaining humans with their last chance to learn the truth and to rejoin the universe. It is destined to be a tremendous undertaking, unfolding a story of deception and ignorance, freedom and tyranny, and the liberating power of the truth. 'Nobody does space opera better than Weber' Publishers Weekly