• Annotated
• Author’s biography is included
This is the digital edition of John S.C. Abbott’s ‘Captain William Kidd and Others of the Pirates or Buccaneers Who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago’ first published in 1874.
Captain William Kidd (22 January 1645 – 23 May 1701) was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalization of empire. Despite the legends and fiction surrounding this character, his actual career was punctuated by only a handful of skirmishes followed by a desperate quest to clear his name.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. Origin of the Buccaneers
CHAPTER II. William Kidd becomes a Pirate
CHAPTER III. Piratic Adventures
CHAPTER IV. Arrest, Trial, and Condemnation of Kidd
CHAPTER V. Kidd, and Stede Bonnet
CHAPTER VI. The Adventures of Edward Teach, or Blackbeard
CHAPTER VII. The Close of Stede Bonnet's Career
CHAPTER VIII. The Portuguese Barthelemy
CHAPTER IX. Francis Lolonois
CHAPTER X. The Plunder; The Carousal; and the New Enterprise
CHAPTER XI. The End of Lolonois’s Career
CHAPTER XII. The Female Pirate, Mary Read
CHAPTER XIII. Anne Bonny, the Female Pirate
CHAPTER XIV. Sir Henry Morgan
CHAPTER XV. The Capture of Puerto Velo, and its Results
CHAPTER XVI. The Expedition to Maracaibo
CHAPTER XVII. Adventures on the Shores of Lake Maracaibo
CHAPTER XVIII. A New Expedition Planned
CHAPTER XIX. Capture of St. Catherine and Chagres
CHAPTER XX. The March from Chagres to Panama
CHAPTER XXI. The Capture of Panama
CHAPTER XXII. The Return from Panama
CHAPTER XXIII. Montbar the Fanatic
FOOTNOTES
• Author’s biography is included
This is the digital edition of John S.C. Abbott’s ‘Captain William Kidd and Others of the Pirates or Buccaneers Who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago’ first published in 1874.
Captain William Kidd (22 January 1645 – 23 May 1701) was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalization of empire. Despite the legends and fiction surrounding this character, his actual career was punctuated by only a handful of skirmishes followed by a desperate quest to clear his name.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. Origin of the Buccaneers
CHAPTER II. William Kidd becomes a Pirate
CHAPTER III. Piratic Adventures
CHAPTER IV. Arrest, Trial, and Condemnation of Kidd
CHAPTER V. Kidd, and Stede Bonnet
CHAPTER VI. The Adventures of Edward Teach, or Blackbeard
CHAPTER VII. The Close of Stede Bonnet's Career
CHAPTER VIII. The Portuguese Barthelemy
CHAPTER IX. Francis Lolonois
CHAPTER X. The Plunder; The Carousal; and the New Enterprise
CHAPTER XI. The End of Lolonois’s Career
CHAPTER XII. The Female Pirate, Mary Read
CHAPTER XIII. Anne Bonny, the Female Pirate
CHAPTER XIV. Sir Henry Morgan
CHAPTER XV. The Capture of Puerto Velo, and its Results
CHAPTER XVI. The Expedition to Maracaibo
CHAPTER XVII. Adventures on the Shores of Lake Maracaibo
CHAPTER XVIII. A New Expedition Planned
CHAPTER XIX. Capture of St. Catherine and Chagres
CHAPTER XX. The March from Chagres to Panama
CHAPTER XXI. The Capture of Panama
CHAPTER XXII. The Return from Panama
CHAPTER XXIII. Montbar the Fanatic
FOOTNOTES
