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As the weeks passed, and hopes of their return dimmed, Rogers declared martial law and set all inhabitants to work on rebuilding the island's fortifications. Finally, the former pirates returned. They had failed to find an opportunity to kill Vane or bring him to battle, but had captured one ship and a number of pirate captives.
The Raid on Nassau was a Spanish military expedition that took place in February 1720 at the end of the War of the Quadruple Alliance wherein Spanish forces assaulted the British settlement of Nassau in an attempt to seize the island of New Providence.
The second Providence, a 28-gun frigate, built by Silvester Bowes at Providence, Rhode Island, by order of the Continental Congress, was launched in May 1776.. After being blockaded in the Providence River for more than a year, the new frigate, under command of Captain Abraham Whipple, ran the British blockade on the night of 30 April 1778, returning the heavy fire of the British frigate HMS ...
With the ships reunited they all dropped anchor off Puná Island on 25 May 1587. Cavendish intended to careen and repair the ships. [28] The crew noted the idyllic nature of the island with plenty of fruit. When they landed however about sixteen of Cavendish's men were surprised by a large group Spaniards and Indians having come from Quito ...
Henry Morgan's Panama expedition, also known as The Sack of Panama was a military expedition in which English privateers and French pirates commanded by Buccaneer Henry Morgan launched an attack with an army of 1,400 men with the purpose of capturing the rich Spanish city of Panama off the Pacific coast between 16 December 1670 and 5 March 1671 during the later stage of the Anglo-Spanish War.
Naval Base Ulithi's Sorlen Island and the north anchorage of Ulithi Atoll in late 1944 Naval Base Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, north of the Melanesia Islands A map of the Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia is one of three major areas in the Pacific Ocean, along with Polynesia and Melanesia Mississinewa sinking at Ulithi after a Kaiten manned torpedo hit Mississinewa sinking on 20 ...
A Rhode Island-based research group originally said it was too premature to call the shipwreck Cook’s vessel. New findings regarding the pump well and bow further point to this ship in fact ...
This harbor, long known as Barnard's Harbour and now known as Carew Harbour, was inland and provided security from gales or capture. The harbour was formed at the mouth of a small lagoon or the west side of the English Maloon. It was located twenty miles east of Canton Harbour, Swan Island, and forty miles south from New Island. The entrance is ...