James Battles

The Sea Beggar A Sloop of My Own

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Produktbeschreibung

From the golden age of pirates and privateers comes the novel The Sea Beggar: A Sloop of My Own. This is the second novel of the Sea Beggar series of a historical novels about Ephraim Bogardus who was a Dutch American Hudson River mariner of the early 18th century. Ephraim Bogardus lived between 1687 and 1770. The term sea beggar or in Dutch watergeuzen means a sea robber and was applied to Dutch privateers. Ephraim Bogardus considered himself to be a watergeuzen or sea beggar. In this novel Ephraim tells his story of how he had his own sloop built by his brothers in Albany and obtained a letter of marque from the governor of New York to hunt Spanish and French prizes and to trade commodities like flour and tobacco in the Caribbean. Ephraim and his brother Cornelius sailed to North Carolina in 1711. Queen Anne's War between Great Britain against Spain and France is still in full swing. North Carolina at the was at the time a wild and wooly place with fights over the government of the new colony and threats of attack by Native Americans. Along the way the brothers captured a Spanish privateer sloop which they kept as their own with his brother Cornelius as the captain. Together Ephraim in his sloop the Watergeuzen and Cornelius in the former Spanish sloop renamed Wyntie Bosch operated out of North Carolina and sailing the Caribbean. Together the Bogardus brother traded tobacco for arms on the Dutch island of Stint Eustatious also known Golden Rock, fought Native American tribes in North Carolina and captured Spanish and French ship to take as prizes. Standby for high adventure from the golden age of pirates and privateers as told in fiction by Ephraim Bogardus. The author of this tale, James B. Battles, is a retired Navy Captain. Captain Jim is a sailor of sloops in the Chesapeake Bay and the Caribbean. He is also a family historian. He has applied his sailing skills with his historical expertise to create a historical novel about one of his ancestors, Ephraim Bogardus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781387469222
• ISBN-10: 1387469223
• Artikelnr.: 66887276

Autorenporträt

James B. Battles is a native of Ohio. He did is undergraduate work at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio majoring in history, political science, and naval science. He was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy upon graduation. He served four years on active duty during the Viet Nam War. After completing active duty, he pursued graduate studies obtaining a Ph.D. at The Ohio State University. Dr. Battles pursued a career in medical education and was a professor of biomedical communications and medical education at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas Texas. He continued to serve in the Naval Reserve obtaining the rank of Captain. His reserve unit was recalled during Desert Strom, in Gulf War I. While at UT Southwestern, Dr. Battles began to specialize in patient safety research worked for the federal government at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville, Maryland before retiring. He is the author of a number of professional journal articles book chapters and monographs in the area of medical education and patient safety. Since his retirement he has been devoting time to publishing family history and genealogy works. Captain Battles continues his love of the sea from his Navy days by sailing on the Chesapeake Bay as often as he can. He has also chartered sailboats in the Caribbean where he served as skipper of chartered sloops. It is this connection to sailing sloops that makes the maritime heritage of his Bogardus ancestors so interesting to him given his Navy background.