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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...ailors turned soldiers -- Free rovers on desperate undertakings -- England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the Engl... ... Scuttling his own ship -- Peter robs his own men and squanders his fortune in France 275- 282 CHAPTER XXV. Bartholomew the Exterminator. -- His despe... ...frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CH... ... Himilco sailed towards the north, and discovered the northern coast of Spain, France, England, Holland and Germany. It is also believed that he proce... ...of the south, carrying their invasions through England (which then belonged to France), and into northern Spain. Nothing was able to arrest their prog... ...y was made a member of the Board of Longitudes, and on the organization of the Senate, he was made a member of that body by Napoleon, who also ennoble...

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