Author: Craig S. Chapman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-10
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 1640124918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to seize control of the Spanish West Indies that ended in ghastly failure. Thirty-four years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, a significant force of American soldiers deployed overseas for the first time in history. Colonial volunteers, 4,000 strong, joined 9,000 British soldiers and 15,000 British sailors in a bold amphibious campaign against the key port of Cartagena de Indias. From its first chapter, Disaster on the Spanish Main reveals a virtually unknown adventure, engrosses with the escalating conflict, and leaves the reader with an appreciation for the struggles and sacrifices of the 13,000 soldiers, sailors, and marines who died trying to conquer part of Spain's New World empire. Disaster on the Spanish Main breaks new ground on the West Indies expedition in style, scope, and perspective and uncovers the largely untold American side of the story.
Author: Sauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-10-30
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521088480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context.
Author: John Christopher Fine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006-09-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1461748844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure," Fine writes. In the 1600s and 1700s, Spain dominated the oceans with its fleet of galleons. Coming to the New World, these ships filled their holds with gold and silver and treasures beyond imagining. The seaway between Spain and the New World was dubbed The Golden Highway. On their journeys back across the seas, many were wrecked on reefs or destroyed by hurricanes. The watery depths now hold their treasures. Today, treasure divers seek their fortunes by attempting--sometimes successfully, sometimes fatally--to retrieve these hordes of riches. In Treasures of the Spanish Main, readers relive each voyage of long ago as well as witness the modern wreck diver's efforts to extract their secrets. Included are: The 1622 fleet * The Concepcion * The Maravillas * The Shipwreck off Jupiter Beach * The San Jose * the 1715 Fleet * and the 1733 Fleet The voyages of centuries ago come alive with Fine's excellent historical detail. Readers will experience the wild storms and the results of unfortunate choices made by long-ago sailors. The eccentric treasure hunters of today, along with those of the past, create a mosaic of suspense and drama on the high seas. A must for everyone interested in pirates, treasure, sailing, history, or just plain fun.
Author: Hamilton Cochran
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account of the Spanish, Dutch, french, British, and American buccaneers who roamed the Spanished Main during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1108078044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An 1859 account of a journey through the Caribbean and Central America by one of the most celebrated Victorian authors.
Author: Harry Collingwood
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1465531327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pablo Emilio Pérez-Mallaína Bueno
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-03-31
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780801881831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book should appeal to all aficionados of the romance of the sea as well as to specialists in Spanish and Latin American colonial history.--Benjamin Keen, author of A History of Latin America
Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher: London : Blackie
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13:
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