The History of the Bucaniers of America ...: Exhibiting a Particular Account and Description of Porto Bello, Chagre, Panama, Cuba, Havanna, and Most of the Spanish Possessions on the Coasts of the West Indies, and Also Along the Coasts of the South Sea : with the Manner in which They Have Been Invaded, Attempted, Or Taken by These AdventurersT. Evans ... and Richardson and Urquhart, 1771 - 360 pàgines |
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Pàgina 129 - This effort of the Pirates was very great, insomuch as the Spaniards could no longer resist nor defend the castle, which was now entered. Hereupon they all threw down their arms, and craved quarter for their lives. Only the Governor of the city would...
Pàgina 57 - ... what is gotten by the whole expedition ; for otherwise it is the same law, among these people, as with other Pirates, No prey, no pay.
Pàgina 265 - I have already remarked, that, after they came once to know us, they did not retain all the aversion for us that had been inculcated into them, when we were strangers unto them. All our people were so charmed with this way of living, that they forgot their past miseries, and thought of no more danger from the Spaniards than if they had been in the middle of Paris.
Pàgina 188 - All their trumpets were sounded and every drum beaten, in token of this universal acclamation and huge alacrity of their minds. Thus they pitched their camp for that night with general content of the whole army, waiting with impatience for the morning, at which time they intended to attack the city. This evening there appeared fifty horse, who came...
Pàgina 173 - This castle is built upon a high mountain, at the entry of the river, and surrounded on all sides with strong palisades or wooden walls, being very well terre-pleined, and filled with earth, which renders them as secure as the best walls made of stone or brick. The top of this mountain is in a manner divided into two parts, between which lies a ditch, of the depth of thirty foot. The castle itself has but one entry, and that by a drawbridge which passes over the ditch aforementioned. On the land...
Pàgina 191 - He discovered more, that in the city they had made trenches, and raised batteries in several places, in all which they had placed many guns, and that at the entry of the highway which led to the city they had built a fort, which was mounted with eight great guns of brass, and defended by fifty men.
Pàgina 129 - By no means: I had rather die as a valiant soldier than be hanged as a coward. They endeavoured, as much as they could, to take him prisoner. But he defended himself so obstinately that they were forced to kill him, notwithstanding all the cries and tears of his own wife and daughter, who begged of him upon their knees he would demand quarter and save his life.
Pàgina 263 - Peralta, such valiant defence had he made. And indeed, to give our enemies their due, no men in the world did ever act more bravely than these Spaniards. Thus coming up close under Peralta's side, we gave him a full volley of shot, and expected to have the like return from him again, but on a sudden...
Pàgina 5 - The rovers came directly upon the place, bringing their little fleet to an anchor, and, in a word, landing 300 men, they attacked the guard who immediately ran away ; and thus they seized the treasure which they carried off, making the best of their way to Jamaica.
Pàgina 140 - Amongst other tortures then used, one was to stretch their limbs with cords, and at the same time beat them with sticks and other instruments. Others had burning matches placed betwixt their fingers, which were thus burnt alive. Others had slender cords or matches twisted about their heads, till their eyes burst out of the skull.