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The villain of the Nantucket series, by science fiction writer S. M. Stirling, is a 20th-century American mercenary named William Walker, who is time-displaced from 1998 CE to 1250 BCE. Walker demonstrates a similar personality to his historical namesake, leading a filibuster force to Mycenaean Greece and initiating a version of the Trojan War ...
At the end of the series, Althea flees with Ohotolarix and a small group of loyalists to Central Asia's Fergana Valley region, far from the reach of the Republic of Nantucket. William Walker: The main antagonist of the series is initially a Coast Guard officer on the Eagle, highly intelligent, but power-hungry.
A sneak attack on Nantucket itself by the nation of Tartessos, led by an ally of Walker, unites the factions of the Republic behind an all-out effort to topple Walker's growing empire, centered in Achaea (Greece), in a two-pronged campaign, attacking Tartessos and opening a second front in the Middle East (through an alliance with Babylon, the ...
The Eagle leaves for Nantucket, but takes with them Isketerol, a wily Tartessian merchant who hopes to learn from the Americans. While the people of Nantucket work for their survival, the ambitious and ruthless Lieutenant William Walker of the Eagle decides that with modern technology he could become a king.
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The 1971 album Nantucket Sleighride, by the band Mountain, contains the song Nantucket Sleighride (to Owen Coffin), inspired by Chase's account of the Essex. In 2013, the television movie The Whale was broadcast on BBC One on December 22, 2013, wherein an elderly Thomas Nickerson, who had been the cabin boy on Essex, recounts the events.
Essex departed from Nantucket on August 12, 1819, on what was expected to be a roughly two-and-a-half-year voyage to the whaling grounds off the west coast of South America. The route towards Cape Horn was an indirect one dictated by the prevailing winds of the Atlantic Ocean .
Walker could not immediately be reached for comment. Rane was in a French prison following his 2022 arrest on unrelated child exploitation charges, the DOJ said. Merritt has been in a Virginia ...