Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age of Netherlands
โ Scribed by Lunsford, Virginia W
- Book ID
- 108443859
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
In the most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who terrorized the seas. From 1692 to 1725 pirates sailed the oceans of the world, plundering ships laden with the riches of India, Africa, South America,
On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy. Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comt