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Pirate Trials: Hung by the Neck Until Dead (Pirate Trials, #2)

3.4/5 ( ratings)

These are actual pirate trials and dying declarations of a pirate just before he was sent to the gallows.
If you like your pirate stories real, not from Hollywood, the action vividly described, the sentences final, then this is the book for you.
Not flashy, no sex, no introspective passages with the exception of the condemned pirate about ready to be hung, drawn and quartered, just real history.
The story of the steamship Chesapeake which was taken over by a band of pirates after it left New York City on its regular voyage to Portland, Maine in 1863 during the height of the Civil War in America - is told in the words of actual court documents.
With an eye to retaining the authenticity of the original documents, out-of-use terms are modernized only to the degree needed to explain the story. What is amazing is the outcome of the proceedings when the United States attempted to secure the extradition of the pirates of the Chesapeake, who claimed that they were Confederate Army regulars seizing the ship by use of authorization from Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy.
A mutiny of the crew of a British warship also finds its way to a United States Federal Courtroom. Read on and learn what happened to those vicious pirates when they had their day in court.

Language: English

Pages: 212

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Privateer Clause Publishing Co.

Release: January 12, 2013

Pirate Trials: Hung by the Neck Until Dead (Pirate Trials, #2)

3.4/5 ( ratings)

These are actual pirate trials and dying declarations of a pirate just before he was sent to the gallows.
If you like your pirate stories real, not from Hollywood, the action vividly described, the sentences final, then this is the book for you.
Not flashy, no sex, no introspective passages with the exception of the condemned pirate about ready to be hung, drawn and quartered, just real history.
The story of the steamship Chesapeake which was taken over by a band of pirates after it left New York City on its regular voyage to Portland, Maine in 1863 during the height of the Civil War in America - is told in the words of actual court documents.
With an eye to retaining the authenticity of the original documents, out-of-use terms are modernized only to the degree needed to explain the story. What is amazing is the outcome of the proceedings when the United States attempted to secure the extradition of the pirates of the Chesapeake, who claimed that they were Confederate Army regulars seizing the ship by use of authorization from Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy.
A mutiny of the crew of a British warship also finds its way to a United States Federal Courtroom. Read on and learn what happened to those vicious pirates when they had their day in court.

Language: English

Pages: 212

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Privateer Clause Publishing Co.

Release: January 12, 2013

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