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The Sea Beggar: Going for Gold is the third in the Sea Beggar series of historical novels about the life and times during the period of Queen Anne's War and its immediate aftermath. The series tells the story of Ephraim Bogardus a Hudson River mariner who uses his Hudson River sloop to do privateering in North Carolina and the Caribbean. In this third book in the series, Ephraim finds himself in a dilemma, Queen Anne's War has ended and his letters of marque from New York and North Carolina are now null and void. He solves the problem by obtaining letters of marque from the Danish Crown which…mehr

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The Sea Beggar: Going for Gold is the third in the Sea Beggar series of historical novels about the life and times during the period of Queen Anne's War and its immediate aftermath. The series tells the story of Ephraim Bogardus a Hudson River mariner who uses his Hudson River sloop to do privateering in North Carolina and the Caribbean. In this third book in the series, Ephraim finds himself in a dilemma, Queen Anne's War has ended and his letters of marque from New York and North Carolina are now null and void. He solves the problem by obtaining letters of marque from the Danish Crown which allows him to take Spanish prizes and continue to do privateering as well as trading in commodities such as tobacco and coca with the Dutch on the island of Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean. Along the way Ephraim and his brother Conelius discover the wreckage of a great Spanish treasure fleet along the coast of Florida.
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Autorenporträt
James B. Battles is a native of Ohio. He did is undergraduate studies 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 before retiring from the Navy. His Naval reserve unit was recalled during Desert Storm, in Gulf War I. While at UT Southwestern, Dr. Battles began to specialize in patient safety research. After retiring from UT Southwestern, he worked for the federal government at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville, Maryland before finally retiring a third time. 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. He has also begun writing historical novels based on his family's history and his personal adventures. 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. It is this connection to sailing sloops that makes the maritime heritage of his Bogardus ancestors so interesting to him given his Navy background