Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign

by Stephan Talty

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Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens. His victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected English and European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, cutthroats and sociopaths and turned them into the fiercest and most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. Sailing out from the English...Read more
  • ISBN10 0307236609
  • ISBN13 9780307236609
  • Publish Date 24 April 2007 (first published 31 March 2007)
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Out of Print 1 October 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 332
  • Language English