Voyage Of Reprisal
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Voyage Of Reprisal
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Author : Kevin Glynn
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2021-07-14
Voyage Of Reprisal written by Kevin Glynn and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-14 with Fiction categories.
An English sea-captain sailing to plunder a Spanish treasure fleet faces the elements, internal discord and a squadron of war galleons lurking in his path. If he prevails, rewards and retribution await in the wilds of the New World. Voyage of Reprisal draws on the author’s extensive research and presents a careful reconstruction of life at sea aboard an Elizabethan war galleon. Charismatic characters come alive, from crude sailors to arrogant lords. The pains, joys, sorrows, and hopes of the age are explored aboard a 16th century privateer.
The Longest Voyage
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Author : Robert Silverberg
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-04
The Longest Voyage written by Robert Silverberg and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-04 with History categories.
From the intense and brooding Magellan and the glamorous and dashing Sir Francis Drake; to Thomas Cavendish, who set off to plunder Spain’s American gold and the Dutch circumnavigators, whose numbers included pirates as well as explorers and merchants, Robert Silverberg captures the adventures and seafaring exploits of a bygone era. Over the course of a century, European circumnavigators in small ships charted the coast of the New World and explored the Pacific Ocean. Characterized by fierce nationalism, competitiveness, and bloodshed, The Longest Voyage: Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery captures the drama, danger, and personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. These accounts begin with Magellan’s unprecedented 1519–22 circumnavigation, providing an immediate, exciting, and intimate glimpse into that historic venture. The story includes frequent threats of mutiny; the nearly unendurable extremes of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, and fatigue; the fear, tedium, and moments of despair; the discoveries of exotic new peoples and strange new lands; and, finally, Magellan’s own dramatic death during a fanatical attempt to convert native Philippine islanders to Christianity. Capturing the total context of political climate and historical change that made the Age of Discovery one of excitement and drama, Silverberg brings a motley crew of early ocean explorers vividly to life.
English Privateering Voyages To The West Indies 1588 1595
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Author : Kenneth R. Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-05-15
English Privateering Voyages To The West Indies 1588 1595 written by Kenneth R. Andrews and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
Documents, some summarized entirely or in part, relating to twenty-five voyages, drawn mainly from the records of the High Court of Admiralty, with selections from narratives printed by Hakluyt and from a quantity of translations by I.A. Wright of originals (1593-5) in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville intended for a further volume on English West Indies Voyages (see Second Series 66, 71 and 99). The Introduction gives an account of the Court itself and of privateering during the Spanish war and in the West Indies. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1959.
Women And English Piracy 1540 1720
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Author : John C. Appleby
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2013
Women And English Piracy 1540 1720 written by John C. Appleby and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Piracy was one of the most gendered criminal activities during the early modern period. As a form of maritime enterprise and organized criminality, it attracted thousands of male recruits whose venturing acquired a global dimension as piratical activity spread across the oceans and seas of the world. At the same time, piracy affected the lives of women in varied ways. Adopting a fresh approach to the subject, this study explores the relationships and contacts between women and pirates during a prolonged period of intense and shifting enterprise. Drawing on a wide body of evidence and based on English and Anglo-American patterns of activity, it argues that the support of female receivers and maintainers was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the early seventeenth century. The emergence of long-distance and globalized predation had far reaching consequences for female agency. Within colonial America, women continued to play a role in networks of support for mixed groups of pirates and sea rovers; at the same time, such groups of predators established contacts with women of varied backgrounds in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. As such, female agency formed part of the economic and social infrastructure which supported maritime enterprise of contested legality. But it co-existed with the victimisation of women by pirates, including the Barbary corsairs. As this study demonstrates, the interplay between agency and victimhood was manifest in a campaign of petitioning which challenged male perceptions of women's status as victims. Against this background, the book also examines the role of a small number of women pirates, including the lives of Mary Read and Ann Bonny, while addressing the broader issue of limited female recruitment into piracy. JOHN C. APPLEBY is Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University.
Cavalry Hero
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Author : Dorothy Adams
language : en
Publisher: Bethlehem Books
Release Date : 2018-08-01
Cavalry Hero written by Dorothy Adams and has been published by Bethlehem Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Casimir Pulaski is most remembered as the dashing Polish cavalry officer who aids the United States’ fight for independence with daring feats of courage and strategy. As a child, already a gifted horseman, he learns from his father Joseph Pulaski, a statesman and landowner, what it means to stand for justice. The love and practical wisdom his mother shares with Casimir and his seven siblings cause him to deeply love his Catholic faith. These two influences converge in his committed enthusiasm to fight for the rights of religious and national freedom. In 1775, after ten unsuccessful years of striving to free Poland from Russia’s oppressive influence upon Polish law and culture, Casimir, falsely accused of treason against the king and exiled from his beloved homeland, travels to France. He convinces Benjamin Franklin of his sincerity in taking up America’s struggle against oppression. Serving under George Washington, Casimir achieves the near impossible feat of building a disciplined Cavalry Legion from American ragtag soldiers. In 1779, the fearless cavalryman dies from wounds after a final blazing charge at the Battle of Savannah—at the age of 32. America’s tribute to Casimir Pulaski’s sacrifice for the sake of freedom is still to be seen in the many places throughout the country that bear his name. Historical Insight article by Daria Sockey Revised edition Ages 9-14; about 190 pages Location: Poland and the U.S. Time Period: Modern Era, American War of Independence
Dictionary Of American Naval Fighting Ships
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Dictionary Of American Naval Fighting Ships written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with categories.
Dictionary Of American Naval Fighting Ships
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Author : United States. Naval History Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Dictionary Of American Naval Fighting Ships written by United States. Naval History Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
An alphabetical arrangement of the ships of the continental and United States Navies, with a historical sketch of each one.
Historical Dictionary Of The American Revolution
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Author : Terry M. Mays
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-11-18
Historical Dictionary Of The American Revolution written by Terry M. Mays and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-18 with History categories.
This greatly expanded second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the American Revolution covers more battles, skirmishes, and raids of the American Revolution than any other printed source. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, maps and photos, a bibliography, and over 1000 cross-referenced dictionary entries.
The Culture Of Piracy 1580 1630
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Author : Claire Jowitt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Culture Of Piracy 1580 1630 written by Claire Jowitt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer) Jowitt shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international relations, and contemporary politics. She considers the ways in which piracy can, sometimes in surprising and resourceful ways, overlap and connect with, rather than simply challenge, some of the foundations underpinning Renaissance orthodoxies-absolutism, patriarchy, hierarchy of birth, and the superiority of Europeans and the Christian religion over other peoples and belief systems. Jowitt's discussion ranges over a variety of generic forms including public drama, broadsheets and ballads, prose romance, travel writing, and poetry from the fifty-year period stretching across the reigns of three English monarchs: Elizabeth Tudor, and James and Charles Stuart. Among the early modern writers whose works are analyzed are Heywood, Hakluyt, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Wroth; and among the multifaceted historical figures discussed are Francis Drake, John Ward, Henry Mainwaring, Purser and Clinton. What she calls the 'semantics of piracy' introduces a rich symbolic vein in which these figures, operating across different cultural registers and appealing to audiences in multiple ways, represent and reflect many changing discourses, political and artistic, in early modern England. The first book-length study to look at the cultural impact of Renaissance piracy, The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 underlines how the figure of the Renaissance pirate was not only sensational, but also culturally significant. Despite its transgressive nature, piracy also comes to be seen as one of the key mechanisms which served to connect peoples and regions during this period.
The Leatherneck
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Leatherneck written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.