On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Dutchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make himfamous. 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. This study of Woodes Rogers is the first modern biography of an extraordinary adventurer. It is fascinating reading.
GRAHAM A. THOMAS is a historian, and an information officer for Defence Equipment and Support Information Systems Services providing stories about the armed forces and the MoD for a wide variety of in-house MoD publications, the press and the web. Formerly he was chief reporter for the Ministry of Defence's magazine Focus. He is a military historian specializing in aerial warfare and British naval and maritime history in the eighteenth century. His most recent publications include Terror from the Sky the Battle against the Flying Bombs, Firestorm: Typhoons over Caen 1944, Furies and Fireflies over Korea, The Fight for Iraq and The Buccaneer King: The Story of Captain Henry Morgan.
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