James Burney

History of the Buccaneers of America

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Produktbeschreibung

The last of his published works, History of the Buccaneers of America, published in 1816, is Burney's historical account of the Spanish, English, and French expansion in the New World. In it, he takes a harsh look at those "miscreants" from his own country who took up arms against the Spanish explorers for glory, revenge, and gold and stole treasures from the native people. Far from hagiographic, Burney is highly critical of his countrymen's loose morality: he hoped to produce an account that was far more truthful than any previous attempt. Anyone interested in history and the age of explorers will be fascinated by these little-known stories of the day-to-day discovery of the Americas. Englishman JAMES BURNEY (1759-1821) was a rear admiral in the British Royal Navy. He traveled with the famous Captain Cook and wrote a handful of books about the exploration of various parts of the world, including his most famous, Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean (1803).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9781602062535
• ISBN-10: 1602062536
• Artikelnr.: 22789764

Inhaltsangabe

1. Considerations on the rights acquired by the discovery of unknown lands,
and on the claims advanced by the Spaniards; 2. Review of the Dominion of
the Spaniards in Hayti or Hispaniola; 3. Ships of different European
nations frequent the West Indies; 4. Iniquitous settlement of the island
Saint Christopher by the English and French; 5. Treaty made by the
Spaniards with Don Henriquez; 6. Treaty of America. Expedition of the
Buccaneers against Panama. Exquemelin's History of the American Sea Rovers.
Misconduct of the European governors in the West Indies; 7. Thomas Peche;
8. Meeting of Buccaneers at the Samballas, and Golden Island; 9. Journey of
the Buccaneers across the Isthmus of Americ, a; 10. First Buccaneer
expedition in the South Sea; 11. Disputes between the French government and
their West-India colonies; 12. Circumstances which preceded the second
irruption of the Buccaneers into the South Sea; 13. Buccaneers under John
Cook arrive at Juan Fernandez; 14. Edward Davis commander. On the coast of
New Spain and Peru; 15. Edward Davis, commander. Meeting of the Spanish and
Buccaneer fleets in the Bay of Panama; 16. Buccaneers under Edward Davis;
17. Edward Davis, his third visit to the Galapagos; 18. Adventures of Swan
and Townley on the coast of New Spain, until their separation; 19. The
Cygnet and her crew on the coast of Nueva Galicia, and at the Tres Marias
Islands; 20. The Cygnet. Her passage across the Pacific Ocean; 21. The
Cygnet departs from Mindanao; 22. The Cygnet. At the Philippines, Celebes,
and Timor. On the coast of New Holland. End of the Cygnet; 23. French
Buccaneers under François Grogniet and Le Picard, to the death of Grogniet;
24. Retreat of the French Buccaneers across New Spain to the West Indies.
All the Buccaneers quit the South Sea; 25. Steps taken towards reducing the
Buccaneers and the Flibustiers under subordination to the regular
governments; 26. Siege and plunder of the city of Carthagena on the Terra
Firma, by an armament from France in conjunction with the Flibustiers of
Saint Domingo; 27. Second plunder of Carthagena.