James Burney

History of the Buccaneers of America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

History of the Buccaneers of America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hansebooks
• Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1891
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9783337179373
• ISBN-10: 3337179371
• Artikelnr.: 48446711

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.