 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 628 pàgines
...sometimes armed ships. Their common mode of attack •was by boarding. They directed their eflbrts especially against the Spanish ships which sailed...Europe laden with the treasures of America. By the repeat* ed losses which they suffered, the Spaiir iards were at last so discouraged, that they seldom... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1830 - 612 pàgines
...either to cultivate the land as husbandmen, or to join the other freebooters on the island of Tortugas. These bold adventurers attacked, in small numbers,...discouraged, that they seldom offered a serious resistance. It happened once that a ship of the buccaneers fell in with two Spanish galleons, each of which had... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 608 pàgines
...common mode of attack was by boarding. They directed their efforts especially against the Spanish ship» which sailed for Europe laden with the treasures of...discouraged, that they seldom offered a serious resistance. It happened once that a ship of the buccaneers fell in with two Spanish galleons, each of which had... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1832 - 864 pàgines
...but several of them together, and sometimes armed ships Their common mode of attack was by hoarding They directed their efforts especially against the...plunder. A false oath was of extremely rare occurrence, nnd was punisbt d by banishment to an uninhabited island. The wounded first received their share, which... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 608 pàgines
...either to cultivate the land as husbandmen, or to join the other freebooters on the island of Tortugas. These bold adventurers attacked, in small numbers,...discouraged, that they seldom offered a serious resistance. It happened once that a ship of the buccaneers fell in with two Spanish galleons, each of which had... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1903 - 1074 pàgines
...but several of them together, and sometimes armed ships. Their common mode of attack was by hoarding. They directed their efforts especially against the...discouraged that they seldom offered a serious resistance. It happened once that a ship of the buccaneers fell in with two Spanish galleons, each of which had... | |
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These bold adventurers attacked, in small numbers, and with small means, but with an intrepidity which bade defiance to danger, not only single merchant vessels, but several of them together, and sometimes armed ships. Their common mode of attack was... 