History of the Buccaneers of America

by Burney, James

• ISBN13: 9781108025249
• ISBN10: 1108025242
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-23
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Captain James Burney (1750-1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean (1803-1817), of which this work formed a part. It was subsequently republished separately, and is here taken from the edition of 1907. Burney concentrates on the activities of the buccaneers on the Pacific coast of South America and in the East Indies, as well as in the Caribbean, describing how their piracy was tolerated, and even encouraged, by the English and French because it was generally aimed at Spanish possessions. The book covers the period from the first European settlements in the Caribbean up to 1700, and includes anecdotes about the activities and lifestyle of the buccaneers, and the relationships between the European powers and their new colonies.

Table of Contents

Considerations on the rights acquired by the discovery of unknown lands, and on the claims advanced by the Spaniards

Review of the Dominion of the Spaniards in Hayti or Hispaniola

Ships of different European nations frequent the West Indies

Iniquitous settlement of the island Saint Christopher by the English and French

Treaty made by the Spaniards with Don Henriquez

Treaty of America. Expedition of the Buccaneers against Panama. Exquemelin's History of the American Sea Rovers. Misconduct of the European governors in the West Indies

Thomas Peche

Meeting of Buccaneers at the Samballas, and Golden Island

Journey of the Buccaneers across the Isthmus of Americ, a

First Buccaneer expedition in the South Sea

Disputes between the French government and their West-India colonies

Circumstances which preceded the second irruption of the Buccaneers into the South Sea

Buccaneers under John Cook arrive at Juan Fernandez

Edward Davis commander. On the coast of New Spain and Peru

Edward Davis, commander. Meeting of the Spanish and Buccaneer fleets in the Bay of Panama

Buccaneers under Edward Davis

Edward Davis, his third visit to the Galapagos

Adventures of Swan and Townley on the coast of New Spain, until their separation

The Cygnet and her crew on the coast of Nueva Galicia, and at the Tres Marias Islands

The Cygnet. Her passage across the Pacific Ocean

The Cygnet departs from Mindanao

The Cygnet. At the Philippines, Celebes, and Timor. On the coast of New Holland. End of the Cygnet

French Buccaneers under Franàois Grogniet and Le Picard, to the death of Grogniet

Retreat of the French Buccaneers across New Spain to the West Indies. All the Buccaneers quit the South Sea

Steps taken towards reducing the Buccaneers and the Flibustiers under subordination to the regular governments

Siege and plunder of the city of Carthagena on the Terra Firma, by an armament from France in conjunction with the Flibustiers of Saint Domingo

Second plunder of Carthagena

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