Pirates on the Chesapeake Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on the Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.04.2008
Verlag
Schiffer PublishingSeitenzahl
252
Maße (L/B/H)
22.6/15.1/2.5 cm
Gewicht
579 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-87033-607-2
A dazzling array of swashbuckling pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers are pitted against the often feckless representatives of an outpost government authority in the Chesapeake Bay region. It is an exciting and dramatic two hundred-year history that begins grimly with the starving time in the Virginia colony in 1609, and ends with the peaceful resolution of the Othello affair with the French in 1807. In between lies a full panoply of violent and bizarre buccaneering incidents that one is hard pressed to imagine from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. Documented by impressive research in articles of the Netherlands, England, and the United States, Shomette skillfully reconstructs these episodes and many others, including the intensive anti-pirate cruise to capturedead or alivethe notorious Blackbeard. The anti-pirate cruises led to the roundup of dozens of pirates and some showy executions but did little to curb the continued terrorist activities of bandits like Roger Makeele, Stede Bonnet, and Joseph Wheland.
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