The Monarchs of the Main – Adventures of the Buccaneers in 3 volumes is a history of pirates and piracy written by British historian George W. Thornbury. His main goal in writing this book is to present the real facts of the people often wrongly depicted in maritime adventure fiction. His characters are men greedy of gold, ambitious, reckless, and cruel fighters. The settings to these scenes are the forested coasts of Caribbean Islands, where many of these outlaws found their piece of New World.
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George W. Thornbury. The Monarchs of the Main
The Monarchs of the Main
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Volume 1
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF TORTUGA
CHAPTER II. MANNERS OF THE HUNTERS
CHAPTER III. THE FLIBUSTIERS, OR SEA ROVERS
CHAPTER IV. PETER THE GREAT, THE FIRST BUCCANEER
CHAPTER V. LOLONNOIS THE CRUEL
CHAPTER VI. ALEXANDRE BRAS-DE-FER, AND MONTBARS THE EXTERMINATOR
Volume 2
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. SIR HENRY MORGAN
CHAPTER II. CONQUEST OF PANAMA
CHAPTER III. THE COMPANIONS AND SUCCESSORS OF MORGAN
CHAPTER IV. THE CRUISES OF SAWKINS AND SHARP
CHAPTER V. DAMPIER'S VOYAGES
Volume 3
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. RAVENAU DE LUSSAN
CHAPTER II. THE LAST OF THE BUCCANEERS
CHAPTER III. FALL OF THE FLOATING EMPIRE
CHAPTER IV. THE PIRATES OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND THE KINGS OF MADAGASCAR
CHIEF AUTHORITIES. BUCCANEER WRITERS
JESUIT HISTORIANS
LIST OF BUCCANEER CHIEFS,
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George W. Thornbury
Adventures of the Buccaneers (Vol. 1-3)
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In 1655, when Admiral Penn appeared off St. Domingo with Cromwell's fleet, the Spaniards, to increase their forces in Hispaniola, recalled the troop which had held Tortuga eighteen months—the commander first blowing up the fort, burning the church, the houses, and the magazines, and devastating the plantations. Not long afterwards, an English refugee of wealth, Elias Ward (or, as the French call him, Elyazouärd), came from Jamaica, with his family and a dozen soldiers, and with an English commission from the general, and was soon joined by about 120 French and English adventurers.
The treaty of the Pyrenees, in 1659, brought no repose to the hunters of Hispaniola from Spanish inroads. The planters were compelled to work armed, and to keep watch at night for fear of being murdered in their beds. In 1667 the war recommencing, let the bloodhounds, who had long been straining in the leash, free to raven and devour. De Lisle again plundered St. Jago, and obtained 2,500 piastres ransom, each of his adventurers secured 300 crowns, the Spaniards abandoning the defiles and carrying off their treasure to Conception.
