The Buccaneers and Their Reign of Terror: An Authentic History (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The roar of American guns against Spanish tyranny in the West Indies was the accompaniment of a brilliant and marvelous spectacle, as well as the completing vic tory of the most extended struggle for liberty against a single power, since the beginning of history. But the general public is not familiar with the fact that many more desperate and extraordinary battles have been fought in those seas. The conflicts were far less spectacular than the one that drove Spain from its last foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but they were more daring. Doubtful and cruel. The warfare was not between superbly equipped ironclad war-ships with thirteen-inch guns, but usually between a sloop filled with uncouth musketeers, and one or more Spanish galleons bearing half a score of three or four pounders. Sometimes the uncouth men, known as Buccaneers, were crowded in a canoe, and the vessel they were capturing was a Spanish war-ship.

Considering that Spain in the time of her greatest weakness fought so desperately and madly against giv ing independence to Cuba, it could well be a matter of curious speculation, to those who have not hereto fore been interested in the West Indies, how Spain, in the greatness of her national power, came to allow half a dozen nations to appropriate all but the two islands freed by American intervention.

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