The Sea Beggar - Battles, James B
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The Sea Beggar: An Apprentice is the first of a series of a historical novels about Ephraim Bogardus who was a Hudson River mariner. He was a Dutch American who lived in the Hudson Valley and operated Hudson River Sloops. Ephraim Bogardus lived between 1687 and 1770. In this novel Ephraim tells his story of how he learned to a privateer during early days Queen Anne's War (1702-1713). 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. Ephraim begins his story telling how he…mehr

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The Sea Beggar: An Apprentice is the first of a series of a historical novels about Ephraim Bogardus who was a Hudson River mariner. He was a Dutch American who lived in the Hudson Valley and operated Hudson River Sloops. Ephraim Bogardus lived between 1687 and 1770. In this novel Ephraim tells his story of how he learned to a privateer during early days Queen Anne's War (1702-1713). 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. Ephraim begins his story telling how he became a privateer or sea beggar learning from his cousin Cornelius Bogardus and later another other Dutch sea beggar. Ephraim finds his first love and learns to be no only a privateer but also merchant trader. From the Gulf of St Lawrence to the Caribbean Islands Ephraim was involved in trading goods in the Caribbean, taking French and Spanish prizes. Ephraim learns about prize courts and the value of prize cargo as well as trading in commodities and working with merchant traders in the Caribbean. Standby for high adventure from the golden age of pirates and privateers as told in fiction by Ephraim Bogardus.
Autorenporträt
James Bruce Battles is a native of Ohio. He was born in Ashtabula, Ohio in an area known as the Western Reserve of Connecticut in Saybrook Township Ohio. He did is undergraduate work at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy. 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 before retiring. His reserve unit was recalled during Desert Strom, Gulf War I. Since his retirement Dr. Battles has concentrated on geology and family history. He has written a number of books on his and his wife's, Carolyn Elliott Battles' families. He is active in the Society of Mayflower Descendants and has established the Mayflower Guard a ceremonial color guard dressed and armed as the Pilgrims would have been in 1620-1621. He is also active in the Sons of the American Revolution and has 12 documented patriot ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War and has written about these ancestors.