Author: James Andrew MetsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Netherlands
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Naval Heroes of Holland
Author: James Andrew MetsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Netherlands
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Naval Heroes of Holland (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. A. MetsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332161973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Excerpt from Naval Heroes of Holland The little work herewith offered to the youth of our land deals, in part, with the struggle of a republic of the past against the nation with which so recently our own great republic was at war. Indeed, much of what is here told was the beginning of that work which the United States was called upon in the providence of God, as the author cannot but believe, to finish, namely, the utter overthrow of Spain as a world-power. Some names will occur here that have become familiar during our recent war and which may serve to awaken the greater interest in the perusal of these pages. The deeds here recorded are those of only a few of the naval heroes of Holland, those whom the author considers most conspicuous in the glorious galaxy. There are many who might also deserve to have their deeds specially recorded - De Witt, Van Galen, Van Ness, Ita, the Evertsens, Cornelius Tromp, and a number of others whose heroic deeds aided in making the fame of Hollands navy world wide. But to have done this would have made not only one, but many bulky volumes, while in the accounts given of the most prominent of these intrepid warriors on the deep many of their heroic brothers in arms have necessarily received a place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
John Paul Jones
Author: Evan ThomasPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451603991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.
Imagining the Americas in Print
Author: Michiel van GroesenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004348034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which publishers and printers in early modern Europe gathered information about the Americas, constructed a narrative, and used it to further colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world (1500–1700). The essays examine the creative ways in which knowledge was manufactured in printing workshops. Collectively they bring to life the vivid print culture that determined the relationship between the Old World and the New in the Age of Encounters, and chart the genres that reflected and shaped the European imagination, and helped to legitimate ideologies of colonialism in the next two centuries.
Sea Battles and Naval Heroes in the 17th-century Dutch Republic
Author: Peter SigmondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"In the 17th century the sea was crucially important to all the inhabitants of the Republic of the United Provinces. The wealth of the regents was based on merchant shipping and overseas trade, and the fishing industry was vital for the feeding of the whole population. Safety at sea and protection against enemy invasion were guaranteed by the war fleet. Consequently, the navy and the admirals who commanded the fleet were at the centre of attention. After all, their success of failure determined the fate of many. If they were successful they were worshipped; if they lost. they were abused by the mob. Many paintings, prints, drawings and objects in the Rijksmuseum bear witness to these men and their fortunes at sea. There are splendid images of sea battles and portraits of admirals and their ships. But what do these wonderful pictures tell us? Why were they made? What do they really show, and how did they originate?"--Back cover.
The American Bookseller
Author: The Cumulative Book Index
Author: NAVAL HEROES OF HOLLAND
Author: J. A. METSPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033608265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Monument’s End
Author: Marisa Anne BassPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691238804
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"An examination of monument-making in the Dutch Republic during the early modern period, during which this form first manifested and flourished"--
British Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1678
Book Description