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The Curse of the Somers - The Secret History behind the U.S. Navy's Most Infamous Mutiny (Hardcover)
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The Curse of the Somers - The Secret History behind the U.S. Navy's Most Infamous Mutiny (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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A detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy's greatest mutiny
and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact The greatest
controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American
Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War
had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the
U.S. brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and
his co-conspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea. The
repercussions of those acts brought headlines, scandal, a fistfight
at a cabinet meeting, a court martial, ruined lives, lost
reputations, and tales of a haunted ship "bound for the devil" and
lost tragically at sea with many of its crew. The "Somers affair"
led to the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy and it remains the
Navy's only acknowledged mutiny in its history. The story also
inspired Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Billy Budd. Others
connected to the Somers included Commodore Perry, a relation and
defender of the Somers' captain Mackenzie; James Fenimore Cooper,
whose feud with the captain, dating back to the War of 1812,
resurfaced in his reportage of the affair; and Raphael Semmes, the
Somers' last caption who later served in the Confederate Navy. The
Curse of the Somers is a thorough recreation of this classic tale,
told with the help of recently uncovered evidence. Written by a
maritime historian and archaeologist who helped identify the
long-lost wreck and subsequently studied its sunken remains, this
is a timeless tale of life and death at sea. James P. Delgado
re-examines the circumstances, drawing from a rich historical
record and from the investigation of the ship's sunken remains.
What surfaces is an all-too-human tale that resonates and chills
across the centuries.
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