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Author: F. a. (Francis Asbury) 1823-1901 Roe
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-24
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9781360237251
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A Day in the Life of a Colonial Sea Captain
Author: J. L. Branse
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2001-12-15
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780823958214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the life of a Nantucket sea captain, how he came to be in command of a whaling ship, and how he and his crew hunted whales.
John Paul Jones
Author: Evan Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1451603991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.
Captain John Smith
Author: Thomas Hoobler
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2008-04-21
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0470314982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who were drawn by the dream that opportunity was here for anyone who dared seize it . . . Smith founded more than a colony. He gave birth to the American dream." --from Captain John Smith Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in America, and cheated death many times by a mere hairbreadth. Based on rich primary sources, including Smith's own writings and newly discovered material, this enlightening book explores Smith's early days, his forceful leadership at Jamestown that was so critical to its survival, and his efforts upon his return to England to continue settlements in America. This unique volume also reveals the truth behind Smith's relationship with Pocahontas, a tale that history has greatly distorted. Bringing to life heroic deeds and dramatic escapes as well as moments of great suffering and hardship, Captain John Smith serves as a great testament to this important historical figure.
Historical Papers of the Society of Colonial Wars in District of Columbia No. 2, 1900. An American Sea Captain of Colonial Times by Rear Admiral Francis Asbury Roe, U.S.N.
Author: Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Captain Christopher Newport
Author: Allen Bryant Nichols
Publisher: Sea Venture LLC
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0615140017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In this first full-length biography of Christopher Newport (1561-1617), Nichols portrays, in carefully research detail, the adventurous life on the high seas of the courageous sea captain who founded the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. As a young man, Newport sailed with Sir Francis Drake in the daring attack on the Spanish fleet at Cadiz and participated in England's defeat of the Spanish Armada. During the war with Spain, Newport seized fortunes of Spanish and Portuguese treasure in fierce sea battles in the West Indies as a privateer for Queen Elizabeth I. He led more attacks on Spanish shipping and settlements than any other English privateer. While leading his men aboard an enemy ship off the coast of Cuba, his right arm was 'strooken off', and Newport was referred to thereafter as, 'Christopher Newport of the one hand.' Admiral of Virginia, Newport led the fleet of colonists who established the first permanent English settlement in the New World. He chose the site for Jamestown, led the initial exploration for King James, and negotiated peacefully with Chief Powhatan's Indian tribes. Newport repeatedly rescued colonists from famine with four resupply voyages. When the 'Sea Venture' was shipwrecked on Bermuda during a hurricane, Newport organized 150 colonists to build two new vessels for their deliverance to Jamestown. In his later career, Newport led three long trading voyages to the Far East for the East India Company. He brought the first English ambassadors to Persia and India. His many voyages laid the foundations for the evolution of the British Empire. Captain Christopher Newport was an outstanding navigator, stern but compassionate sea captain, and legendary leader of men." -- Page 4 of cover.
Patriot Pirates
Author: Robert H. Patton
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0307390551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, naval warfare, and international political intrigue set on the high seas during the American Revolution. Patriot Pirates highlights the obscure but pivotal role played by colonial privateers in defeating Britain in the American Revolution. American privateering-essentially legalized piracy-began with a ragtag squadron of New England schooners in 1775. It quickly erupted into a massive seaborne insurgency involving thousands of money-mad patriots plundering Britain's maritime trade throughout Atlantic. Patton's extensive research brings to life the extraordinary adventures of privateers as they hammered the British economy, infuriated the Royal Navy, and humiliated the crown.
Sailing to America
Author: James E. Knight
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780893757267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the 1633 voyage of the ship Treadwell carrying Puritans and colonists from England to the New World.
