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Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail - Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean (Paperback)
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Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail - Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean (Paperback)
Series: Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
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The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman
Islands. The story has been passed through generations for over two
centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but
all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten
Sail. Sometimes misunderstood as the loss of a single ship, it was
in fact the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the
most dramatic maritime disasters in all of Caribbean naval history.
Surviving historical documents and the remains of the wrecked ships
in the sea confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is
a legend based on a historical event in which HMS Convert, formerly
L'Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and 9 of her 58-ship
merchant convoy sailing from Jamaica to Britain, wrecked on the
jagged eastern reefs of Grand Cayman in 1794. The incident has
historical significance far beyond the boundaries of the Cayman
Islands. It is tied to British and French history during the French
Revolution, when these and other European nations were competing
for military and commercial dominance around the globe. The Wreck
of the Ten Sail attests to the worldwide distribution of European
war and trade at the close of the eighteenth century. In Cayman's
1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail: Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean,
Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton focuses on the ships, the people, and
the wreck itself to define their place in Caymanian, Caribbean, and
European history. This well-researched volume weaves together rich
oral folklore accounts, invaluable supporting documents found in
archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and France, and tangible
evidence of the disaster from archaeological sites on the reefs of
the East End.
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