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The scovrge of the Indies, bvccaneers, corsairs, & filibvsters / from original texts and contemporary engravings by Mavrice Besson.

By:

Besson, Maurice, 1885-

Contributor(s):

Thornton, Everard [translator.]

Language: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Random House, 1929.Description: 2 preliminary leaves, ix-xii, 330, [1] pages, 1 leaf including illustrations (including portraits, plans, facsimiles) : plates color plates, maps ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Other title:

Scourge of the Indies, buccaneers, corsairs, & filibusters

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

910.4

LOC classification:

P2161 .B56

Contents:

Introduction.--The origins of the Brothers of the coast.--The "custom of the coast".--Some portraits of great filibusters: Montbars the Exterminator and Peter Legrand of Dieppe. Montaubaa of Bordeanx (women filibusters and some others). The Chevalier de Grammont. Nau l'Olonnais. Memoirs of Ravenau de Lussan. Jean-Baptiste Ducasse, governor of Saint Domingo. Jacques Cassard. Dula ien, Fran cois Thurot. Jean d'Albarade.--Bibliography (p. 329-331).

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"Translated by Everard Thornton."

Printed in Bruxelles.

French edition published under title: Les "Fr eres de la coste", fillbvaters & coranires ... Paris, 1928.

"This edition is limited to 1040 copies for the United States of America."

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