Empire of the Blue Water

Its the 1600's. Spain has taken control of all the land in the New World. Now England wants some of it back. Oliver Cromwell, along with Thomas Gage draw up a plan for attack. Henry Morgan, along with many other misfits and drop outs of societies, sail to the new world along with Thomas Gage, the author of the novel that spitballed the plan of attack on the Spanish. After failing to take Cartagena, the English settle on the Island of Jamaica in a small town of Port Royal. There Henry Morgan starts his bloody reign on the Spanish. Henry Morgan now in his late twenties gets appointed a captain of his own ship. In order to make a name for him self. He sails from port Royal and attacks Granada, a city that sits in the southern end of present day Mexico. After brining in a huge load of pieces of eight, now captain Morgan gets his name on the list of people wanted by the Spanish. After three more attacks, Portobelo, Maracaibo, and Panama (in that order), the English and the Spanish draw up a peace treaty. Since Morgan attacked Panama after the treaty the English are forced to arrest him. Morgan ends up getting out of prison but then dies in 1688 of dropsy.

Throughout the Novel Stephan Talty creates a atmosphere that keeps the reader locked in on the novel until the very end. The novel really puts the reader right inside the sixteen hundreds on a ship sailing throughout the New World. Talty captivates a great picture of who the West Indies Pirates actually were.

-Moses-