A Hanging Offense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Hanging Offense write by Buckner Melton. This book was released on 2007-11-01. A Hanging Offense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mutiny on the Bounty is one of history's greatest naval stories—yet few know the similar tale from America's own fledgling navy in the dying days of the Age of Sail, a tale of mutiny and death at sea on an American warship. In 1842, the brig-of-war Somers set out on a training cruise for apprentice seamen, commanded by rising star Alexander Mackenzie. Somers was crammed with teenagers. Among them was Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, a disturbed youth and a son of the U.S. Secretary of War. Buying other crew members' loyalty with pilfered tobacco and alcohol, Spencer dreamed up a scheme to kill the officers and turn Somers into a pirate ship. In the isolated world of a warship, a single man can threaten the crew's discipline and the captain's authority. But one of Spencer's followers warned Mackenzie, who arrested the midshipman and chained him and other ringleaders to the quarterdeck. Fearing efforts to rescue the prisoners, officers had to stay awake in round-the-clock watches. Steering desperately for land, sleep-deprived and armed to the teeth, battling efforts to liberate Spencer, Somers's captain and officers finally faced a fateful choice: somehow keep control of the vessel until reaching port—still hundreds of miles away—or hang the midshipman and his two leading henchmen before the boys could take over the ship. The results shook the nation. A naval investigation of the affair turned into a court-martial and a state trial and led to the founding of the Naval Academy to provide better officers for the still-young republic. Mackenzie's controversial decision may have inspired Herman Melville's great work Billy Budd. The story of Somers raises timeless questions still disturbing in twenty-first-century America: the relationship between civil and military law, the hazy line between peace and war, the battle between individual rights and national security, and the ultimate challenge of command at sea.
A Hanging Offence
A Hanging Offence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Hanging Offence write by Don Cummer. This book was released on 2015. A Hanging Offence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sequel to Brothers at War finds best friends Jacob and Eli on opposite sides of the battlefield as the War of 1812 erupts. Jacob and Eli may be blood brothers, but they are on opposite sides in the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. While Jacob joins John Norton's Mohawk band fighting with the British-Canadian side, Eli fights with the Americans. The Canadians win the day, but the victory comes at a great cost: the death of General Brock. Eli is captured and jailed. Because he swore the oath of allegiance to the Crown before he left Canada, his return with the invaders makes him a traitor. He is charged with high treason -- a hanging offence. Can Jacob save his friend from the gallows?
The Long Road to Annapolis
The Long Road to Annapolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Road to Annapolis write by William P. Leeman. This book was released on 2010. The Long Road to Annapolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding. --from publisher description
Brothers at War
Brothers at War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brothers at War write by Don Cummer. This book was released on 2013-10. Brothers at War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Friend or villain? Brother or traitor? This compelling story of wartime friendship brings the looming War of 1812 to dramatic life. Jacob is a steadfast Loyalist. Eli is a newcomer to Upper Canada, whose family has just moved from the American South. The two boys become fast friends, but their friendship is tested when Eli's father refuses to pledge allegiance to the Crown. As Loyalists in Upper Canada become more and more suspicious of those with American leanings, the looming war threatens to pull the boys -- and their town -- apart. Peopled with key figures from the War of 1812, such as General Isaac Brock and newspaperman-turned-traitor Joseph Willcocks, Brothers at War portrays the tense era just before the War of 1812, which pitted neighbour against neighbour as Upper Canada prepared to fend off invading American forces.
Myth of the Hanging Tree
Myth of the Hanging Tree - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth of the Hanging Tree write by Robert J. Tórrez. This book was released on 2008. Myth of the Hanging Tree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Torrez studies the gritty role of hangings in frontier New Mexico.
