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Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
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On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting narrative, after a series of pursuits and sea battles he returned laden with booty and with a reputation as one of the most audacious and shrewd fighting captains of the age. He was then appointed governor of the Bahamas by George I with the task of suppressing the pirates who roamed this corner of the Caribbean and preyed on its shipping. He was equally successful as a privateer and pirate-hunter in an age when brutality and ruthlessness were the law of the sea.
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Release dateApr 20, 2009
ISBN9781844689866
Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
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Graham A. Thomas

Graham A. Thomas is a historian and editor of British Army Review, the British Army’s journal of military thought. He is a military historian specializing in aerial warfare, land-based twentieth-century campaigns and British naval and maritime history in the eighteenth century. His most recent publications include The Man with No Face and Other Strange Terrifying Tales, The Buccaneer King: The Story of Captain Henry Morgan, Operation Big Ben: The Anti-V2 Spitfire Missions, Pirate Killers, The Royal Navy and the African Pirates and Terror from the Sky: The Battle against the Flying Bombs.

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