Acknowledgements p. xiii Abbreviations p. xv Preface p. xvii Introduction p. 1 Motives for Overseas Enterprise p. 1 Ships p. 5 Navigation p. 16 Conditions on Board Ship p. 20 The Text p. 28 The and First Intrusions into the Caribbean p. 31 Anglo-Spanish Trade p. 31 The Unexpected Arrival of John Rut (1527) p. 35 John Hawkins and the Slave Trade (1562-1568) p. 40 The First Hawkins Voyage (1562-1563) p. 40 The Second Hawkins Voyage (1564-1565) p. 46 The Voyage of John Lovell (1566-1567) p. 51 The Third Hawkins Voyage and the Battle of San Juan de Ulua (1567-1569) p. 53 The Aftermath p. 60 The War of Reprisals (1569-1578) p. 65 The Return of Francis Drake (1569-1571) p. 65 Drake's Voyage of 1572-1573 p. 69 Other Privateering Voyages to the Caribbean (1571-1578) p. 74 The Voyage of John Oxenham to Panama and the South Sea (1576-1577) p. 79 The Privateering War I (1585-1595) p. 84 The Road to War p. 84 Preparations for the Return of Drake p. 88 Drake's Voyage of 1585-1586 p. 91 Further Privateering Voyages (1586-1595) p. 101 The Privateering War II (1595-1604) p. 115 Preparations for the Return of Drake and Hawkins p. 115 The Voyage of Drake and Hawkins (1595-1596) p. 119 The Continuation of the Privateering War (1596-1604) p. 124 The First Trading Voyages (1599-1604) p. 130 Trade, Settlement and Privateering (1604-1655) p. 135 New Objectives in the Post-Elizabethan Era p. 135 The Voyage of Sir Henry Colt to Barbados and St. Kitts (1631) p. 140 The Voyages of William Jackson (1638-1645) p. 144 Cromwell's Western Design (1654-1655) p. 148 The in the Caribbean p. 156 Origins (1630s-1650s) p. 156 Heyday in the Caribbean (1660s-1670) p. 160 p. 165 Decline and New Horizons from the 1670s p. 183 (1697-1720s) p. 189 The Royal Navy in the West Indies(1655-1762) p. 192 The Jamaica Squadron p. 192 Naval War in the Caribbean (1667-1739) p. 197 The Expeditions of Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon (1739-1742) p. 208 The Expedition to Havana (1762) p. 222 North America The First Explorers (1480-1547) p. 231 Bristol and the New World p. 231 John Cabot (or Giovanni Caboto) p. 233 The Case for an English Discovery of America p. 239 The Last Voyages of the Reign of Henry VII (1501-1505) p. 241 The Voyages of the Reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547) p. 247 The Birth of New Interests (1576-1590) p. 252 Martin Frobisher and the North-West Passage (1576-1578) p. 252 The Arctic Voyages of John Davis (1585-1587) p. 258 The Colonial Projects of Sir Humphrey Gilbert p. 262 Walter Ralegh and the Amadas-Barlowe Voyage to Virginia (1584) p. 268 The Return to Virginia (1587) p. 274 The North-West Passage From 1602 p. 282 The East India Company. The Voyages of Waymouth and Knight (1602-1606) p. 282 The Voyages of Henry Hudson (1607-1611) p. 285 Button, Gibbons, Baffin, Bylot and Hawkridge (1612-1619) p. 289 The Voyages of Foxe and James (1631-1632) p. 295 The Enduring Quest p. 300 From Exploration to Colonial Expansion (1591-1681) p. 303 The Gulf of St. Lawrence (1591-1597) p. 304 Northern Virginia (1602-1605) p. 307 Return to Roanoke and Southern Virginia (1600-1603) p. 311 The Creation of the Virginia Colony (1602-1624) p. 312 New England (1606-1620) p. 316 Newfoundland (1610-1632) p. 320 Colonial Expansion (1634-1681) p. 322 The South Atlantic and the South Sea Brazil and the Lure of Peru p. 329 The Voyages of William Hawkins and Others to Brazil (1530-1542) p. 329 First News of the South Sea and Peru (1526-1589) p. 333 Sir Richard Grenville's Project for the South Sea and South Atlantic (1574) p. 338 Drake's Circumnavigation (1577-1580) p. 342 The Draft Plan and aims of the Voyage p. 342 The Ships and their Crews p. 347 The Voyage to the Straits of Magellan p. 348 The Coasts of Chile and Peru p. 352 California and the Return to England p. 360 Drake's Successors en Route to Peru (1582-1594) p. 371 Reactions in Peru and England to Drake's Voyage p. 371 The Voyage of Edward Fenton (1582-1583) p. 373 The Expedition of the Earl of Cumberland (1586-1587) p. 380 The Circumnavigation of Thomas Cavendish (1586-1588) p. 382 The Voyage of the Delight of Bristol (1589-1590) p. 389 The Tragic Return of Thomas Cavendish (1591-1593) p. 391 The Voyage of Richard Hawkins (1593-1594) p. 400 Brazil and the Coast of Guiana (1580-1631) p. 407 Trading Voyages to Brazil (1580-1595) p. 407 Ralegh's Expedition to Guiana (1595) p. 412 The Voyages of Keymis and Berry (1596-1597) p. 418 Ralegh's Last Venture (1617-1618) p. 419 Trade and Settlement in Guiana and on the R. Amazon (1604-1631) p. 424 Return to the South Sea p. 431 England and the South Sea in the Post-Elizabethan Era (1603-1670) p. 431 John Narborough's Aims in the South Sea p. 434 Narborough's Voyage (1669-1671) p. 436 The Expedition of John Strong (1689-1691) p. 442 The Buccaneers in the South Sea p. 452 Coxon, Sawkins and Sharp. The Isthmus and Gulf of Panama (1679-1680) p. 452 Sharp in the South Sea (1680-1681) p. 457 Sharp's Return to the West Indies and London (1681-1682) p. 463 The Gathering of the Second Wave p. 466 Cook, Eaton and Davis (March-September 1684) p. 470 Davis, Swan, Harris and New Arrivals in the Gulf of Panama (September 1684-June 1685)p. 472

The Break-up of the English Alliance (June 1685-March 1686) p. 479 Davis, Harris and Knight (August 1686-May 1687) p. 481 Reunion at Guayaquil p. 485 The Final Acts p. 489 New Circumnavigators and the Last (1703-1722) p. 494 The Voyage of (1703-1707) p. 494 The Voyage of (1708-1711) p. 501 The South Sea Company p. 509 The Last Privateers: John Clipperton and (1719-1722) p. 512 The First Naval Expeditions (1740-1766) p. 521 Preparations for the Voyage of George Anson p. 521 Anson in the South Sea (1740-1744) p. 525 The Expedition of Captain John Byron (1764-1766) p. 536 Epilogue p. 544 The Falkland Isles, Terra Australis Incognita and the North-West Passage p. 544 The Nineteenth Century - Scientists and Naval Seamen p. 553 Bibliography p. 559 Index p. 581 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.