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The wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, 1625 : celebrations and controversy /edited by Marie-Claude Canova-Green and Sara J. Wolfson. "On 11 May 1625 Charles I married Henrietta Maria, the youngest sister of Louis XIII of France. The match signalled Britain's firm alignment with France against Habsburg Spain and promised well for future relations between the two countries. However, the union between a Protestant king and a Catholic princess was controversial from the start and the marriage celebrations were fraught with tensions. They were further disrupted by the sudden death of James I and an outbreak of the plague, which prevented large-scale public celebrations in London. The British weather also played its part. In fact, unlike other state occasions, the celebrations exposed weaknesses in the display of royal grandeur and national superiority. To a large extent they also failed to hide the tensions in the Stuart-Bourbon alliance. Instead they revealed the conflicting expectations of the two countries, each convinced of its own superiority and intent on furthering its own national interests. Less than two years later Britain was effectively in a state of war against France. In this volume, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore for the first time the marriage celebrations of 1625, with a view to uncovering the differences and misunderstandings beneath the outward celebration of union and concord. By taking into account the ceremonial, political, religious and international dimensions of the event, the collection paints a rounded portrait of a union that would become personally successful, but complicated by the various tensions played out in the marriage celebrations and discussed here."--Provided by the publisher. [2020] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.06/2092
The state of the navy consider'd in relation to the victualling, particularly in the Straits, and the West Indies. With some thoughts on the mismanagements of the Admiralty for several years past ... 1699 • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available. 094:355.65(42)"1699"
British piracy in the golden age : history and interpretation, 1660-1730. Volume 3 /Editor Joel H. Baer. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
A collection of original voyages, containing 1: Capt Cowley's voyage round the globe. 2: Captain Sharp's journey over the isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South Seas ... 3. Capt Wood's voyage thro' the Streights of Magellan. 4: Mr Roberts's adventures among the corsairs of the Levant ... Hacke, William 1699 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4"16"
13 Sharks The Careers of a Series of Small Royal Navy Ships, from the Glorious Revolution to D-day. /John D Grainger "John D Grainger charts the careers of the thirteen vessels that have served the Royal Navy under the name HMS Shark. Despite the ferocious name, they have all been relatively small vessels including one brigantine, five sloops, one Sixth Rate, a gunvessel, four destroyers and a submarine. Collectively they therefore give a good representation of the various roles of these types, which receive far less attention than larger, more glamorous ships. Furthermore, as the first entered service in 1699 and the last was sunk in 1944 (having the dubious distinction of being the only Allied vessel lost on D-Day), they illustrate the changes and continuities in the Royal Navy and war at sea across almost 250 years. In each case the author considers the origin of the ship, the purpose for which it was designed and employed, its captains and where possible its crew, as well as the activities of the ship itself and its final fate; in addition background information of a general nature is included as a necessary context for those actions."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123"1699/1944"SHARK
Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic's age of sail /Matthew R. Bahar. Wabanaki communities across northeastern North America had been looking to the sea for generations before strangers from the east began arriving there in the sixteenth century. From earliest encounters to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers came together to command fleets of sailing ships and engage in strategic diplomacy, thwarting English and French imperialism. Storm of the Sea narrates how by the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing the ocean to achieve a dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries--Provided by publisher. [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 974.004/9734