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Cyrus Townsend Brady. South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
Table of Contents
PART I. SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
PART II. OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
PART I. SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
I
Panama and the Knights-Errant of Colonization
I. The Spanish Main
II. The Don Quixote of Discoveries and His Rival
"Ojeda Galloped Off with His Astonished Captive"
"The Indians Poured a Rain of Poisoned Arrows"
III. The Adventures of Ojeda
IV. Enter One Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
V. The Desperate Straits of Nicuesa
II
Panama, Balboa and a Forgotten Romance
I. The Coming of the Devastator
"Balboa … Engaged in Superintending the Roofing of a House"
II. The Greatest Exploit since Columbus's Voyage
"The Expedition Had to Fight Its Way Through Tribes of Warlike and Ferocious Mountaineers"
"He Took Possession of the Sea in the Name of Castile and Leon"
"He Threw the Sacred Volume to the Ground in a Violent Rage"
III. "Furor Domini"
IV. The End of Balboa
III
Peru and the Pizarros
A Study in Retribution "They that take the sword shall perish by the sword."
I. The Chief Scion of a Famous Family
II. The Terrible Persistence of Pizarro
III. "A Communistic Despotism."
IV. The Treacherous and Bloody Massacre of Caxamarca
V. The Ransom and Murder of the Inca
"They Burst Upon the Ranks of the Unarmed Indians."
"The Three Pizarros … Sallied Out to Meet Them"
VI. The Inca and the Peruvians Strike Vainly for Freedom
"He Threw His Sole Remaining Weapon in the Faces of the Escaladers"
VII. "The Men of Chili" and the Civil Wars
Fernando Cortes. From a Picture in the Florence Gallery
VIII. The Mean End of the Great Conquistador
IX. The Last of the Brethren
IV
The Greatest Adventure in History
I. The Chief of all the Soldiers of Fortune
II. The Expedition to Mexico
III. The Religion of the Aztecs
IV. The March to Tenochtitlan
V. The Republic of Tlascala
VI. Cortes' Description of Mexico, written by his own hand. to Charles V., Emperor of Germany and King of Spain
VII. The Meeting with Montezuma
VIII. The Seizure of the Emperor
IX. The Revolt of the Capital
X. In God's Way
The Death of Montezuma. From an old engraving
"He Defended Himself With His Terrible Spear"
XI. The Melancholy Night
XII. The Siege and Destruction of Mexico
XIII. A Day of Desperate Fighting
XIV. The Last Mexican
XV. The End of Cortes
PART II. OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
I
The Yarn of the Essex, Whaler
"The Ship Came to a Dead Stop"
"The Killing of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr, at Weehawken, New Jersey, July 11, 1804"
II
Some Famous American Duels
I. A Tragedy of Old New York
II. Andrew Jackson as a Duellist
III. The Killing of Stephen Decatur
IV. An Episode in the Life of James Bowie
V. A Famous Congressional Duel
VI. The Last Notable Duel in America
III
The Cruise of the Tonquin
A Forgotten Tragedy in Early American History
IV
John Paul Jones
Being Further Light on His Strange Career[1]
I. The Birth of the American Navy
II. Jones First Hoists the Stars and Stripes
III. The Battle With the Serapis
IV. A Hero's Famous Sayings
V. What Jones Did for His Country
VI. Why Did He Take the Name of Jones?
VII. Search for Historical Evidence
VIII. The Joneses of North Carolina
IX. Paul Jones Never a Man of Wealth
V
In the Caverns of the Pitt
A Story of a Forgotten Fight with the Indians
VI
Being a Boy Out West
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