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The book gives an almost mythical status to the more colourful characters, such as the infamous English pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack. It provides the standard account of the lives of many people still famous in the 21st century, and has influenced pirate literature of Scottish novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie. [13]
Johnny Con/Edward "Ed" Thatch/Blackbeard/Edmund Morcilla - a pirate, known as the "hunsi kanzo", a boy deeply educated as an assistant to an old English magician before becoming a full-fledged Voodoo sorcerer, and captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge with a zombie servant who is a boatman.
The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by British author Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent). [1] They focus on the military careers of the fictional Richard Bolitho and Adam Bolitho in the Royal Navy, from the time of the American Revolution past the Napoleonic Era.
Captain [8] 1352 Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent: Captain [9] 1353 Reynold Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough: Captain. [10] 1361 Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham: Warden of Calais and Guînes. [11] 1373 Sir John Burley: Captain. [12] 1375–1378 Hugh Calveley: Captain. [13] Bernard Brocas was Captain of Calais Castle 1377–1379 ...
Thomas Kingo (1634–1703), poet and hymn writer, bishop of Funen (1677–1703) Czeslaw Kozon (1951–), Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Copenhagen Stygge Krumpen (c. 1485–1551), last catholic bishop in Denmark (before the Lutheran reformation)
Historical accounts for early U.S. naval history now occur across the spectrum of two and more centuries. This Bibliography lends itself primarily to reliable sources covering early U.S. naval history beginning around the American Revolution period on through the 18th and 19th centuries and includes sources which cover notable naval commanders, Presidents, important ships, major naval ...
The 7th Virginia Regiment was raised on January 11, 1776, at Gloucester, Virginia, for service with the Continental Army.The regiment would see action at the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown (after which it wintered at Valley Forge [1]), Battle of Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston.
The book is not so much about battle, although there are some battles. It is not so much about history, although it is filled with the real stuff of the past. It is not even, in the end, about sailing, although it captures with unique clarity the terrible beauty and wondrous excitement, the deep awe and hard work, that are so much the ...