At length, on January 18th, he commenced his march toward Panama, with a chosen body of freebooters, who were thirteen hundred strong.Continuing
Archives for June 2014
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame
Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and
Manning the ‘Serapis’ and the ‘Bon Homme Richard’
"A little after ten," says Jones in his report, "I saw, with inexpressible grief, the last glimpse of the Bonhomme Richard."Continuing “I Have Not
American Ship Sinking; British Ship Burning
While the fire was raging in so terrifying a manner, the water was entering the ship in many places. The rudder had been cut entirely through, the
‘Serapis’ Boarded
"Captain Pearson now called away his boarders and sent them on board the Richard, but, when they had reached her rail, they were met by Jones himself,
Why the Fall of Constantinople Still Matters
Time: 1453Place: ConstantinopleFrom the Economist, this article traces the influence of this event through history to the present.
Assault on Fort Saint Laurent
From that moment they determined to carry the fort or die to a man upon the spot.Continuing Buccaneers Sack Panama,our selection from History of
The Telephone’s Second Invention
Hello!- Thomas Alva EdisonThe first telephones did not have dialers or ringers. One simply shouted into the telephone and hoped that the
John Paul Jones Has Only Three Guns Left
"While the fire of the Serapis was continued without intermission from the whole of her lower-deck battery, the only guns that were still fired from