Accounts of the Wreck of the Commerce - Two Narratives of Shipwreck, Capture and Slavery by Arabs of American Seamen, 1815 - Bok av James (University

An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig \Commerce\by James RileyA Journal, Comprising an Account of the Loss of the Brig \Commerce\, of Hartford, (Con.) James Riley, Masterby Archibald RobbinsA great American naval adventure of the early nineteenth centuryThe year 1815 was a momentous one. On the muddy slopes of Waterloo in Belgium Napoleon, who had set Europe ablaze for two decades, was brought to ruin. Across the Atlantic the United States of America had concluded its war with..