The Prize of All the Oceans: Commodore Anson's Voyage Around the World and How He Seized the Spanish Treasure Galleon by Glyn Williams

The Prize of All the Oceans: Commodore Anson's Voyage Around the World and How He Seized the Spanish Treasure Galleon

Glyn Williams

352 pages • first pub 1999 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
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In September 1740 Commodore George Anson set sail from Spithead with a six-vessel British warship expedition. His orders were to sail around the world, rout the Spanish fleet, and seize "the great galleon that made the annual voyage from Acapulco ...

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