Captain William Kidd and Others of the Pirates or Buccaneers (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

• Annotated • Author’s biography is included This is the digital edition of John S.C. Abbott’s ‘Captain William Kidd and Others of the Pirates or Buccaneers Who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago’ first published in 1874. Captain William Kidd (22 January 1645 – 23 May 1701) was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalization of empire. Despite the legends and fiction surrounding this character, his actual career was punctuated by only a handful of skirmishes followed by a desperate quest to clear his name. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR PREFACE CHAPTER I. Origin of the Buccaneers CHAPTER II. William Kidd becomes a Pirate CHAPTER III. Piratic Adventures CHAPTER IV. Arrest, Trial, and Condemnation of Kidd CHAPTER V. Kidd, and Stede Bonnet CHAPTER VI. The Adventures of Edward Teach, or Blackbeard CHAPTER VII. The Close of Stede Bonnet's Career CHAPTER VIII. The Portuguese Barthelemy CHAPTER IX. Francis Lolonois CHAPTER X. The Plunder; The Carousal; and the New Enterprise CHAPTER XI. The End of Lolonois’s Career CHAPTER XII. The Female Pirate, Mary Read CHAPTER XIII. Anne Bonny, the Female Pirate CHAPTER XIV. Sir Henry Morgan CHAPTER XV. The Capture of Puerto Velo, and its Results CHAPTER XVI. The Expedition to Maracaibo CHAPTER XVII. Adventures on the Shores of Lake Maracaibo CHAPTER XVIII. A New Expedition Planned CHAPTER XIX. Capture of St. Catherine and Chagres CHAPTER XX. The March from Chagres to Panama CHAPTER XXI. The Capture of Panama CHAPTER XXII. The Return from Panama CHAPTER XXIII. Montbar the Fanatic FOOTNOTES