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02304cam a22002893a 4500 001 F400B4B26BFD11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20160209020829 008 070804s2007 nyub b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0307236617 (pbk.) : 020 $a 9780307236616 (pbk.) : 040 $a BTCTA $c BTCTA $d SILO $d YDXCP $d IH7 $d OCLCQ $d LJW $d SILO 043 $a cc----- 100 1 $a Talty, Stephan. 245 1 $a Empire of blue water : $b Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the outlaws' bloody reign / $c Stephan Talty. 260 $a New York : $b Three Rivers Press, $c 2007. 300 $a 332 p. : $b maps ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index. 520 $a The real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean as a privateer in the service of the English became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, and vicious cutthroats, and turned them into the most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. They terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting. His last raid, a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spain's hold on the Americas forever.--From publisher description. 505 0 $a Introduction : The lost city -- "I offer a new world" -- The tomb at the Escorial -- Morgan -- Into the past -- Sodom -- The art of cruelty -- Portobelo -- Rich and wicked -- An amateur English theatrical -- Black clouds to the east -- The isthmus -- City of fire -- Aftermath -- Apocalypse. 650 0 $a Pirates $z Caribbean Area $x History $y 17th century. 651 0 $a Caribbean Area $x History $y To 1810. 600 10 $a Morgan, Henry, $c Sir, $d 1635?-1688. 941 $a 1 952 $l VMPC334 $d 20170118035426.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F400B4B26BFD11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search