History of the Buccaneers of America

by James Burney

Overview

The last of his published works, History of the Buccaneers of America, published in 1816, is Burney's historical account of the Spanish, English, and French expansion in the New World. In it, he takes a harsh look at those "miscreants" from his own country who took up arms against the Spanish explorers for glory, revenge, and gold and stole treasures from the native people.

Far from hagiographic, Burney is highly critical of his countrymen's loose morality: he hoped to produce an account that was far more truthful than any previous attempt. Anyone interested in history and the age of explorers will be fascinated by these little-known stories of the day-to-day discovery of the Americas.


Englishman JAMES BURNEY (1759-1821) was a rear admiral in the British Royal Navy. He traveled with the famous Captain Cook and wrote a handful of books about the exploration of various parts of the world, including his most famous, Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean (1803).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602062535
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

Table of Contents

1. Considerations on the rights acquired by the discovery of unknown lands, and on the claims advanced by the Spaniards; 2. Review of the Dominion of the Spaniards in Hayti or Hispaniola; 3. Ships of different European nations frequent the West Indies; 4. Iniquitous settlement of the island Saint Christopher by the English and French; 5. Treaty made by the Spaniards with Don Henriquez; 6. 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; 7. Thomas Peche; 8. Meeting of Buccaneers at the Samballas, and Golden Island; 9. Journey of the Buccaneers across the Isthmus of Americ, a; 10. First Buccaneer expedition in the South Sea; 11. Disputes between the French government and their West-India colonies; 12. Circumstances which preceded the second irruption of the Buccaneers into the South Sea; 13. Buccaneers under John Cook arrive at Juan Fernandez; 14. Edward Davis commander. On the coast of New Spain and Peru; 15. Edward Davis, commander. Meeting of the Spanish and Buccaneer fleets in the Bay of Panama; 16. Buccaneers under Edward Davis; 17. Edward Davis, his third visit to the Galapagos; 18. Adventures of Swan and Townley on the coast of New Spain, until their separation; 19. The Cygnet and her crew on the coast of Nueva Galicia, and at the Tres Marias Islands; 20. The Cygnet. Her passage across the Pacific Ocean; 21. The Cygnet departs from Mindanao; 22. The Cygnet. At the Philippines, Celebes, and Timor. On the coast of New Holland. End of the Cygnet; 23. French Buccaneers under François Grogniet and Le Picard, to the death of Grogniet; 24. Retreat of the French Buccaneers across New Spain to the West Indies. All the Buccaneers quit the South Sea; 25. Steps taken towards reducing the Buccaneers and the Flibustiers under subordination to the regular governments; 26. 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; 27. Second plunder of Carthagena.