Author: Aaron SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Atrocities of the Pirates
Author: Aaron SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Atrocities of the Pirates
Author: Aaron SmithPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626367442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Originally published in 1824, this firsthand account describes how, in June 1822, young English seaman Aaron Smith was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. A skilled navigator, fluent in Spanish, and regarded as what was then acceptable as a ship’s surgeon, he was an attractive candidate for conscription. Forced to work as a navigator and participate in pirate boarding parties for ten months, he suffered mightily and witnessed unspeakable acts of murder and torture. He struggled between resisting the orders of the cruel pirate captain and acting against his conscience to preserve his own life from the wrath of the pirates. After failed attempts to get away, he managed to narrowly escape with his life, but was arrested as a pirate upon arrival in Havana. Smith was jailed in Cuba and then sent back to England in chains, where he found himself on trial for his life at the Old Bailey courthouse. The attorney general himself led the prosecution, with the captains of the ships boarded by Smith and the pirates as the principal witnesses.
The atrocities of the pirates; being a narrative of the sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the pirates of the island of Cuba
Author: Aaron SmithThe Atrocities of the Pirates ; Being A Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Sufferings Endured by the Author During His Captivity Among the Pirates of The Island of Cuba ; with an Account of the Excesses and Barbarities of Those Inhuman Freebooters. By Aaron Smith, (Who was Himself Afterwards Tried at the Old Bailey as a Pirate, and Acquitted.).
Author: Aaron SmithThe Atrocities of the Pirates
Author: Dr Aaron SmithPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781346972817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
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The Atrocities of the Pirates
Author: Aaron SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Atrocities of the Pirates
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. Forced to work as a navigator and as a member of pirate boarding parties, he witnessed unspeakable acts of murder and torture. Befriended by a young Cuban woman, he managed to escape with his life, but was arrested as a pirate in Havana and sent back to England in chains. There, he found himself on trial for his life at the Old Bailey courthouse—with the attorney general himself leading the prosecution. Smith's dramatic account of his personal experience is a brutally honest, unromanticized [sic] look at piracy in the 19th century.
Author: Aaron Smith
Author: Aaron Smith
Author: Aaron Smith