Category: Historical Novels

The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 2 (of 3)

Son of a Welsh farmer--Runs to sea--Turns Buccaneer--Joins Mansvelt and takes the Island of St. Catherine--Mansvelt dies--St. Catherine re-taken by the Spaniards--Morgan takes Port au Prince--Quarrel of French and English adventurers about a marrow-bone--Takes Porto Bello--Cap...

Chapters

7. CHAPTER I.

Son of a farmer--Runs to sea--Turns Buccaneer--Joins Mansvelt, and takes the Island of St. Catherine--Mansvelt dies--St. Catherine retaken by the Spaniards--Takes Port-au-Prince...

8. CHAPTER II.

March from Chagres--Famine--Ambuscade of Indians--Wild bulls driven down upon them--Victory--Battle of the Forts--Takes the City--Burns part of it--Cruelties--Debauchery--Retrea...

10. CHAPTER IV.

Land at Darien--March Overland--Take Santa Maria--Sail to Panama--Ringrose is wrecked--Failure of Expedition--Driven off by Spanish Fleet--Coxen accused of cowardice--Sharp elec...

11. CHAPTER V.

Leaves Captain Sharp--Land march over the Isthmus--Joins Captain Wright--Wreck of the French fleet--Returns to England--Second voyage with Captain Cook--Guinea coast--Juan Ferna...

9. CHAPTER III.

Dispersion of the fleet--Oexmelin's interview with the old Buccaneer--Adventure with Indians--Esquemeling's Escapes--1673. D'Ogeron's Escape from the Spaniards--1676. Buccaneers...

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2. CHAPTER I.--SIR HENRY MORGAN.

Son of a Welsh farmer--Runs to sea--Turns Buccaneer--Joins Mansvelt and takes the Island of St. Catherine--Mansvelt dies--St. Catherine re-taken by the Spaniards--Morgan takes P...

5. CHAPTER IV.--THE CRUISES OF SAWKINS AND SHARP.

The South sea now visited--Buccaneers land at Darien--March overland--Take Santa Maria--Sail to Panama--Ringrose is wrecked--Failure of Expedition--Driven off by Spanish fleet--...

6. CHAPTER V.--DAMPIER'S VOYAGES.

Dampier leaves Captain Sharp--Land march over the Isthmus--Joins Captain Wright--Wreck of D'Estrèes and the French fleet--Returns to England--Second voyage--With Captain Cook--G...

3. CHAPTER II.--CONQUEST OF PANAMA.

March from Chagres over the Isthmus--Famine--Ambuscades of Indians--Wild bulls driven down upon them--Victory in the Savannah--Battle of the Forts--Takes the city--Burns part of...

4. CHAPTER III.--THE COMPANIONS AND SUCCESSORS OF MORGAN.

Oexmelin's interview with the old Buccaneer--Adventure with Indians--Esquemeling's escapes--D'Ogeron's escape from the Spaniards--Buccaneers' fight in Tobago against the Dutch--...