Empire of blue water :
Talty, Stephan.
Empire of blue water : Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the outlaws' bloody reign / Stephan Talty. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, 2007. - 332 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.
Introduction : The lost city -- "I offer a new world" -- The tomb at the Escorial -- Morgan -- Into the past -- Sodom -- The art of cruelty -- Portobelo -- Rich and wicked -- An amateur English theatrical -- Black clouds to the east -- The isthmus -- City of fire -- Aftermath -- Apocalypse.
The real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean as a privateer in the service of the English became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, and vicious cutthroats, and turned them into the most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. They terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting. His last raid, a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spain's hold on the Americas forever.--From publisher description.
0307236609 9780307236609 0786298421 9780786298426
9780307236609 52495
2006015273
Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688.
Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688.
To 1810
Pirates--History--Caribbean Area--17th century.
Pirates.
Pirates--Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area--History--To 1810.
Caribbean Area.
History.
F2161 / .T35 2007
972.904
972.904 T152e
Empire of blue water : Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the outlaws' bloody reign / Stephan Talty. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, 2007. - 332 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.
Introduction : The lost city -- "I offer a new world" -- The tomb at the Escorial -- Morgan -- Into the past -- Sodom -- The art of cruelty -- Portobelo -- Rich and wicked -- An amateur English theatrical -- Black clouds to the east -- The isthmus -- City of fire -- Aftermath -- Apocalypse.
The real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean as a privateer in the service of the English became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, and vicious cutthroats, and turned them into the most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. They terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting. His last raid, a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spain's hold on the Americas forever.--From publisher description.
0307236609 9780307236609 0786298421 9780786298426
9780307236609 52495
2006015273
Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688.
Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688.
To 1810
Pirates--History--Caribbean Area--17th century.
Pirates.
Pirates--Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area--History--To 1810.
Caribbean Area.
History.
F2161 / .T35 2007
972.904
972.904 T152e