Extensive pages on Sir Francis Drake and his circumnavigation of the world on the Golden Hind ...

Ben Cherry as Blackbeard Teach's Hole Pyrate Specialty Shoppe Located on Ocracoke Island where Blackbeard's reign ended, this is home port for all your ''piratephernalia'' needs. Books, toys, flags, maps, tee shirts, jewelry, videos, art, music, and pirate party supplies. Order Online Blackbeard! Pirate s Ship to Sail Again( ) The Boating News (May 1999) Artifacts On The Road A Slideshow of ...

Pirate Specialty Shop and Blackbeard Exhibit located on Ocracoke Island where the pirate Blackbeard was killed. The shop offers over 1000 items related to piracy such as books, toys, flags, music, videos, birthday party supplies and much more.

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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Francis Pretty: Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round The World, 1580 by Francis Pretty, One of Drake's Gentlemen at arms. The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea, and therehence about the whole Globe of the Earth, begun in the year of our Lord 1577. The 15. day of November, in the year of our Lord 1577, Master ...

Small group tours to Panama and Colombia which combines the exploits of Sir Francis Drake and other pirates with superb scuba diving and exploring and eco-adventures from the Pacific to the Caribbean Islands ...

ARCHIVES & HISTORY | A&H VISITS & TOURS QAR PROJECT | SUNNY NC: THE CRYSTAL COAST Such a day, rum all out: Our company somewhat sober: A damned confusion amongst us! Rogues a-plotting: Great talk of separation so I looked sharp for a prize: Such a day found one with a great deal of liquor on board, so kept the company hot, damned hot; then all things went well again. One of several ...

The Epic, World Circling Voyage of Francis Drake aboard his ship ...

Scans of the English Mercurie July 23, 1588. This document contains an original account of the battle between Drake and the Spanish Armada.

Captain Kidd Pirate's Treasure Buried in the Connecticut River For inquiries contact Libby Klekowski Clarke's Island, which lies in the Connecticut River in Northfield, Massachusetts, just off the upper end of Pine Meadow, has a legend attached to it. According to Temple and Sheldon (1875), the story goes this way: Captain Kidd and his men ascended the Connecticut River searching for a place to ...

Free trial issue subscribe back issues Athena Review Vol.1, no.2 The New World Voyages of William Dampier William Dampier (1652-1715), British explorer and sea captain, is one of the most highly regarded map-makers and navigators of all time. Dampier was born in Somersetshire, England and went to sea by age 16. Between 1675 and 1678 he became involved with buccaneers along the Spanish Main in ...

Pencoed Castle - brief history and photographs Pencoed (pronounced Pen-koyd ) is set in around 370 acres of rolling farmland about one km. from the village of Llandevaud in Gwent. We have a location plan here and some new higher res. photos here . September '98, an old print added here. The castle is a fortified Tudor manor house thought to have been built by Sir Thomas Morgan during the first ...

Captain Kidd's Treasure Island Found ...

DETERMINATION OF LATITUDE BY FRANCIS DRAKE ON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA IN 1579 Copyright January 1999 by Bob Graham In 38. deg. 30. min. we fell with a conuenient and fit harborough, and Iune 17. came to anchor therein: where we continued till the 23. day of Iuly following. The World Encompassed See preface Nuno da Silva, a Portuguese captain and pilot whose merchant ship was captured by ...

Sailor, mercenary, spy, diplomat, petty criminal and shipwrecked cannibal! The remarkable life of a Burgess including the siege of Gibraltar, the Great Northern War and the Boon Island Scandal.

Pirate captain of the Whydah. English (probably from Devonshire). Born in 1689. Mother died soon after. Became a sailor in his teens. Probably saw combat. Turned pirate at 26 or 27. Elected commander of a pirate fleet in 1716. Captured more than 50 ships before age 29. ...

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