Download or read book The Blockade Runners Illustrated written by Jules Verne and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blockade Runners is a translation of Les forceurs de blocus (1871). The Blockade Runners, a novella, was included along with A Floating City in the first english and french editions of this work. This translation, which follows that of Sampson and Low (UK) and Scribners (US) is by "N. D'Anvers", pseudonymn for Mrs. Arthur Bell (d. 1933) who also translated other Verne books. It is also included in the fifteen volume Parke edition of the works of Jules Verne (1911). There is another translation by Henry Frith which was published by Routledge (1876). Both of these stories are about ships; Floating City about the largest ship of the time, the Great Eastern, and Blockade Runners about one of the fastest, the Dolphin.
Download or read book British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War written by Joseph McKenna and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3,500 miles of coastline for the duration of the war--brought down the Confederacy. The daring exploits of Confederate blockade runners are well known--but many of them were British citizens operating out of neutral ports such as Nassau, Havana and Bermuda. Focusing on British involvement in the war, this history names the overseas bankers and manufacturers who, in critical need of cotton and other Confederate exports, financed and equipped the fast little ships that ran the blockade. The author attempts to disentangle the names and aliases of the captains--many of whom were Royal Navy officers on temporary leave--and tells their stories in their own words.
Download or read book Confederate Blockade Runner 1861 65 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lifeblood of the Confederacy, the blockade runners of the Civil War usually began life as regular fast steam-powered merchant ships. They were adapted for the high-speed dashes through the Union blockade which closed off all the major Southern ports, and for much of the war they brought much-needed food, clothing and weaponry to the Confederacy. This book traces their operational history, including the development of purpose-built blockade running ships, and examines their engines, crews and tactics. It describes their wartime exploits, demonstrating their operational and mechanical performance, whilst examining what life was like on these vessels through accounts of conditions on board when they sailed into action.
Download or read book The Blockade Runners Illustrated written by Jules Verne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1862 and the United States is engaged in a deadly civil war. President Lincoln has ordered the navy to blockade all Southern seaports. Neutral nations, like England, were told not to try and break through the blockade. This story by the classic author, Jules Verne relives the adventures of one English ship, the Dolphin, and its attempt to "run the blockade" into Charleston, South Carolina. Join Captain James Playfair as he makes plans for the voyage and how he discovers something unusual about his newest crew member.
Download or read book The Blockade Runners written by Jules DESCARTES FERAT and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Blockade runners " (original french version called "Les forceurs de blocus" is an 1865 novel written by Jules Verne. The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton.Verne's tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early 1860s. "The blockade runners" is associated with the novel called " A floating city". The Jules Verne Odyssey classic collection is made to give you a fine translation of Jules VERNE work. All the illustrations are made with the original first edition illustration. We wish you to enjoy your reads with us. Be happy, be Jules VERNE odyssey classic collection.Jules VERNE Odyssey classic collection ASIN number: Number 1 _From the earth to the moon (Paperback: B086Y5M9P3 & eBook: B086ZWHWW5)Number 2 _Around the Moon (Paperback: B086Y7FC2P & eBook: B086ZWZM3K)Number 3 _Hector Servadac - Off on a Comet (Paperback: B086Y5MNCX & eBook: B0871JJ5CQ)Number 4 _In Search of the Castaways (Paperback: B086Y5KHSK & eBook: B0871LLZJB)Number 5_Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Paperback: B0875XFZJT & eBook: B0874VSXMY)Number 6_The Mysterious Island (Paperback: B086Y4TNB8 & eBook: B0872FSKQH)Number 7_A Floating City (Paperback: B08731CCW9 & eBook: B0872XR7P4)Number 8_The Blockade Runners (Paperback : B08771BTT7 & eBook: B08774BC3D)
Download or read book Lifeline of the Confederacy written by Stephen R. Wise and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News
Download or read book The Blockade Runners written by Jules Verne and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jules Verne is the author of many classic, world-famous novels such as "Around the World in 80 Days" and "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". In this brand-new translation of "The Blockade Runners", Verne moves seamlessly between Scotland and the southern states of the US during the American Civil War. With the southern harbours effectively sealed by the North, Scottish industrialist James Playfair must run a daring Federalist blockade of a Charleston harbour in an effort to trade supplies for cotton and to rescue a young girl's father, held prisoner by the Confederates. As the blockade grows tighter, will Playfair risk all to save the man, or will he head back to Scotland in safety with his hold full of precious cotton? "The Blockade Runners" is a translation of "Les Forceurs de Blocus" (1871). As a novella, it was originally included along with "A Floating City" in the first English and French editions. BACK COVER Blockade runners in the American Civil War risked the Unionist blockade to trade in the Confederate ports. The potential profit for those who evaded the blockade was a great temptation for some merchants, regardless of their political views. In The Blockade Runners, a Scottish merchant James Playfair hatches a scheme to sail across the Atlantic during the American Civil War sea blockade smuggling weapons to the Confederates in exchange for cotton. His mission is put at risk when Jenny, the daughter of an abolitionist, is discovered on board. Will he risk everything to save her father, a prisoner of the Confederates? Torn between his desire for a successful mission and his growing love for Jenny, James must choose his allegiances carefully.
Download or read book Breaking the Blockade written by Charles D. Ross and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have—and what England and other foreign countries wanted—was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers. Boats worked their way back and forth from the Confederacy to Nassau and England, and everyone from scoundrels to naval officers wanted a piece of the action. Poor men became rich in a single transaction, and dances and drinking—from the posh Royal Victoria hotel to the boarding houses lining the harbor—were the order of the day. British, United States, and Confederate sailors intermingled in the streets, eyeing each other warily as boats snuck in and out of Nassau. But it was all to come crashing down as the blockade finally tightened and the final Confederate ports were captured. The story of this great carnival has been mentioned in a variety of sources but never examined in detail. Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas during the Civil War focuses on the political dynamics and tensions that existed between the United States Consular Service, the governor of the Bahamas, and the representatives of the southern and English firms making a large profit off the blockade. Filled with intrigue, drama, and colorful characters, this is an important Civil War story that has not yet been told.
Download or read book Civil War Blockade Running on the Texas Coast written by Andrew W. Hall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports in the anemic supply chain to embattled Confederate forces. Long, fast steamships ran in and out of the city's port almost every week, bound to and from Cuba. Join author Andrew W. Hall as he explores the story of Texas's Civil War blockade runners--a story of daring, of desperation and, in many cases, of patriotism turning coat to profiteering.
Download or read book Running the Blockade Illustrated Edition written by Thomas E. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks and Escapes During the American Civil War. First published in 1896.
Download or read book The Blockade Runners Translated from the French being the Second Story of Une Ville Flottante Etc Author s Illustrated Edition written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War written by John F. Messner and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Joannes Wyllie, son of a gardener from Fife, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War Features his life of adventure and action; he was once declared dead, survived shipwrecks and shark attack, and successfully commanded ships across the globe The most comprehensive history of the Ad-Vance is provided, from departing Glasgow until capture off the Carolina coast
Download or read book A Floating City and the Blockade Runners written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Floating City and the Blockade Runners by Jules Verne, first published in 1904, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book The Narrative of a Blockade runner written by J. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The adventures of a blockade runner or Trade in time of war written by William Watson (of Skelmorlie.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armies of Deliverance written by Elizabeth R. Varon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Lincoln's Union coalition sought to deliver the South from slaveholder tyranny and deliver to it the blessings of modern civilization. Over the course of the war, supporters of black freedom built the case that slavery was the obstacle to national reunion and that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit Northern and Southern whites alike. To sustain their morale, Northerners played up evidence of white Southern Unionism, of antislavery progress in the slaveholding border states, and of disaffection among Confederates. But the Union's emphasis on Southern deliverance served, ironically, not only to galvanize loyal Amer icans but also to galvanize disloyal ones. Confederates, fighting to establish an independent slaveholding republic, scorned the Northern promise of liberation and argued that the emancipation of blacks was synonymous with the subjugation of the white South.
Download or read book The Adventures of a Blockade Runner Or Trade in Time of War Illustrated by Capt Byng written by William WATSON (Military Writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
