South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure. Cyrus Townsend Brady
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Название: South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure

Автор: Cyrus Townsend Brady

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СКАЧАТЬ VI. CORTES'S DESCRIPTION OF MEXICO 147 VII. THE MEETING WITH MONTEZUMA 162 VIII. THE SEIZURE OF THE EMPEROR 171 IX. THE REVOLT OF THE CAPITAL 174 X. IN GOD'S WAY 177 XI. THE MELANCHOLY NIGHT 182 XII. THE SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF MEXICO 194 XIII. A DAY OF DESPERATE FIGHTING 198 XIV. THE LAST MEXICAN 215 XV. THE END OF CORTES 218

       OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE

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THE YARN OF THE "ESSEX," WHALER 231
SOME FAMOUS AMERICAN DUELS 245
I. A TRAGEDY OF OLD NEW YORK 246
II. ANDREW JACKSON AS A DUELLIST 248
III. THE KILLING OF STEPHEN DECATUR 251
IV. AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF JAMES BOWIE 252
V. A FAMOUS CONGRESSIONAL DUEL 254
VI. THE LAST NOTABLE DUEL IN AMERICA 256
THE CRUISE OF THE "TONQUIN" 261
JOHN PAUL JONES 281
I. THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN NAVY 283
II. JONES FIRST HOISTS THE STARS AND STRIPES 284
III. THE BATTLE WITH THE "SERAPIS" 285
IV. A HERO'S FAMOUS SAYINGS 287
V. WHAT JONES DID FOR HIS COUNTRY 288
VI. WHY DID HE TAKE THE NAME OF JONES 289
VII. A SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 292
VIII. THE JONESES OF NORTH CAROLINA 296
IX. PAUL JONES NEVER A MAN OF WEALTH 297
IN THE CAVERNS OF THE PITT 301
BEING A BOY OUT WEST 315
INDEX 335

       SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS

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      One of the commonly misunderstood phrases in the language is "the Spanish Main." To the ordinary individual it suggests the Caribbean Sea. Although Shakespeare in "Othello," makes one of the gentlemen of Cyprus say that he "cannot 'twixt heaven and main descry a sail," and, therefore, with other poets, gives warrant to the application of the word to the ocean, "main" really refers to the other element. The Spanish Main was that portion of South American territory distinguished from Cuba, Hispaniola and the other islands, because it was on the main land.

      When the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea were a Spanish lake, the whole circle of territory, bordering thereon was the Spanish Main, but of late the title has been restricted to Central and South America. The buccaneers are those who made it famous. So the word brings up white-hot stories of battle, murder and sudden death.

      The history of the Spanish Main begins in 1509, with the voyages of Ojeda and Nicuesa, which were the first definite and authorized attempts to colonize the mainland of South America.

      The honor of being the first of the fifteenth-century navigators to set foot upon either of the two American continents, indisputably belongs to John Cabot, on June 24, 1497. Who was next to make a continental landfall, and in the more southerly latitudes, is a question which lies between Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci.

      Fiske, in a very convincing argument awards the honor to Vespucci, whose first voyage (May 1497 to October 1498) carried him from the north coast of Honduras along СКАЧАТЬ