Craig S Chapman

Disaster on the Spanish Main

The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies During the War of Jenkins' Ear

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Disaster on the Spanish Main presents a thoroughly researched and gripping account of the 1741–42 West Indies expedition from its roots in the commercial-imperial conflicts between Britain and Spain to its eventual unraveling in death and despair.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781640124318
• ISBN-10: 1640124314
• Artikelnr.: 61407725

Autorenporträt

Craig S. Chapman spent thirty years managing dual careers in telecom network sales and the U.S. Army and National Guard. He is the author of Battle Hardened: An Infantry Officer’s Harrowing Journey from D-Day to VE Day and More Terrible Than Victory: North Carolina’s Bloody Bethel Regiment, 1861–65. Chapman lives and writes in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Porto Bello
2. Competition between Empires
3. Hosier’s Ghost
4. Tension in the West Indies
5. War
6. Dithering, Decision, and Defiance
7. Expanding War
8. Mustering the Americans
9. Underway at Last
10. Caribbean
11. Jamaica
12. Saint Domingue to Cartagena
13. Tierra Bomba
14. Bocachica
15. Castillo San Luis de Bocachica
16. Tierra Firme
17. Castillo San Felipe de Barajas
18. Withdrawal
19. Santiago
20. Panama to Reduction
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index