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George Alfred Henty 8 December — 16 November was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. Henty was born in Trumpingtonnear Cambridge. He was a sickly child who had to spend long periods in bed. During his frequent illnesses he became an avid reader and developed a wide range of interests which he carried into adulthood. He left the university early without completing his degree to volunteer for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was sent to the Crimea and while there he witnessed the appalling conditions under which the British soldier had to fight. His letters home were filled with vivid descriptions of what he saw. His father Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main impressed by his letters and sent them to The Morning Advertiser newspaper which printed them. This initial writing success was a factor in Henty's later decision to accept the offer to become a special correspondent, the early name for journalists now better known as war Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main. Shortly before resigning from the army as a captain in he married Elizabeth Finucane. The couple had four children. Elizabeth died in after a long illness and shortly after her death Henty began writing articles for the Standard newspaper. In the newspaper sent him as Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main special correspondent to report on the Austro-Italian War where he met Giuseppe Garibaldi. Henty was a strong supporter of the British Empire all his life; according to literary critic Kathryn Castle: "Henty Henty once related in an Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main how his storytelling skills grew out of tales told after dinner to his children. He wrote his first children's book, Out on the Pampas innaming the book's main characters after his children. The book was published by Griffith and Farran in November with a title page date of While most of the books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala and Those Other Animalsshort stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jacka weekly boy's magazine. Henty was the most popular Boy's author of his day. Blackie estimated in February that Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main were producing aboutHenty books a year at the height of his popularity, [note 1] [7] and stated that their records showed they had produced over three and a half million Henty books. He further estimated that considering the US and other overseas authorised and pirated editions, a total of 25 million was not impossible. His children's novels typically revolved around a boy or young man living in troubled times. Henty's heroes — which occasionally included young ladies — are uniformly intelligent, courageous, honest and resourceful with plenty of 'pluck' yet are also modest. Henty usually researched his novels by ordering several books on the subject he was writing on from libraries, and consulting them before beginning writing. Henty is Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main in Brompton CemeteryLondon. Henty's commercial popularity encouraged other writers to try writing juvenile adventure stories in his style; " Herbert Strang ", Henry Everett McNeilPercy F. Westerman and Captain Frederick Sadleir Brereton all wrote novels in "the Henty tradition", often incorporating then-contemporary themes such as aviation and First World War combat. Henty wrote works of historical fiction and all first editions had the date printed at the foot of the title page. The dates given below are those printed at the foot of the title page of the very first editions in the United Kingdom. It is a common misconception that American Henty titles were published before those of the UK. All Henty titles bar one were published in the UK before those of America. The simple explanation for this error of judgement is that Charles Scribner's Sons of New York dated their Henty first editions for the current year. The first UK Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main published by Blackie were always dated for the coming year, to have them looking fresh for Christmas. This title was published in book form in the UK inalthough the story itself had already been published in England prior to the first American edition, in The Boy's Own Annual. One such publisher and major modern advocate of Henty is the American scientist, homeschool curriculum publisher, and one-time political candidate Arthur B. Robinsonwho promotes the use of Henty's books as a supplement to his self-teaching homeschool curriculum. Even during his lifetime, Henty's work was contentious; some Victorian writers accused Henty's novels of being xenophobic towards non-British people and objected to his glorification of British imperialism [9] in such books as True to the Old Flag which supports the Loyalist side in the American War of Independence[17] and In the Reign of Terror and No Surrender! Henty's novel With Lee in Virginia has a protagonist who fights on the side of the "aristocratic" Confederacy against the Union. Henty's popularity amongst homeschoolers is not without controversy. McDorman states Henty disliked blacks and also, in Henty's fiction, that " Boers and Jews were considered equally ignoble". Goodenough, an entomologist remarks to the hero:. They [Negroes] are just like children They are always either laughing or quarrelling. They are good-natured and passionate, indolent, but will work hard for a time; clever up to a certain point, densely stupid beyond. The intelligence of an average negro is about equal to that of a European child of ten years old. They are fluent talkers, but their ideas are borrowed. They are absolutely without originality, absolutely without inventive power. Living among white men, their imitative faculties enable them to attain a considerable amount of civilization. Left alone to their own devices they retrograde into a state little above their native savagery [23]. In the Preface to his novel A Roving Commission Henty claims "the condition of the negroes in Hayti has fallen to the level of that of the savage African tribes" and argues "unless some strong white power should occupy the island and enforce law and order" this situation will not change. In the novel Facing Death: A Tale of Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main Coal Mines Henty comes down against strikes and has the working class hero of the novel, Jack Simpson, quell a strike among coal miners. A review by Deirdre H. Inon the bookjacket for Captain Bayley's HeirThe Times of London writes that Henty's character in With Lee in Virginia, "bravely proving his sympathy with the slaves of brutal masters" and escapes through "the devotion of a black servant and of a runaway slave whom he had assisted". The reviewer recommends the book. All Blackie 1st Editions of Henty were published in the year prior to their title page date. There is one known instance of a book title by Henty having been filmed, along with nine audio theater productions by Heirloom Audio [30] in their series "The Extraordinary Adventures of G. It's historical fiction, yet there's very little fiction. Who had the guts, the belief in God's sovereignty? I want to tell the stories that young people think, 'I could imagine doing something like that. There was a time in our country we really had big dreams, thought we could do big things. For some reason, we don't talk like that, take risks like that. It's amazing. William Wallace was a real person, had real struggles of his own. He had hopes and dreams and ambitions, struggles like anyone else, doubts and flaws. Directed by Ray Taylor. Cinematography by Frank Redman. Twelve episodes two reels each : [1] "A Treacherous Friend," released 15 April From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The four main characters are named after his own children. It was published in even thought the title page says This was a common marketing tactic at the time. A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Olson and Robert Shadle. Blackie in February ". Henty: A Bibliography. A History of Brith Publishing Second ed. London: Routledge. Held Fast for England: G. Henty, Imperialist Boys Writer. London: Hamish Hamilton. From Primer to Pleasure: An introduction to the history of children's books in England. Library Association. Henty — A Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main Study. Scolar Press. Minnesota History. Retrieved 26 October He Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main that Britain was right and the American colonists were wrong". Henty " in Popular Children's Literature in Britain. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. Henty's boy's novel". Shain, American Quarterly. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 5 December Ed RendellNola Foulston. Retrieved Francis Drake - Wikipedia

Sir Francis Drake c. Drake is Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main famously known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from toand was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main on the western coast of the Americas, [4] an area that had previously been largely unexplored by Western shipping. In the same year he was appointed mayor of Plymouth. As a vice admiralhe was second-in-command of the English fleet in the victorious battle against the Spanish Armada in Drake's exploits made him a hero to the English, but his privateering led the Spanish to brand him a pirateUnder Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main to them Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main El Draque. Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, DevonEngland. Although his birth date is not formally recorded, it is known that he was born while the Six Articles were in force. His birth date is estimated from contemporary sources such as: "Drake was two and twenty when he obtained the command of the Judith " [12] This would date his birth to A date of c. He was the oldest of the twelve sons [15] of Edmund Drake —a Protestant farmer, and his wife Mary Mylwaye. The first son was alleged to have been named after his godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford. There Drake's father obtained an appointment to minister the men in the King's Navy. He was ordained deacon and was made vicar of Upnor Church on the Medway. Francis Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main married Mary Newman at St. Budeaux church, Plymouth, in July She died 12 years later, in In the s, Drake's father found the young man a position with the owner and master of a small barque. Drake likely engaged in commerce among England, the Low Countries and France. On the death of the barque's owner, Drake was given the barque. At the age of eighteen he was purser of a ship which sailed to the Bay of Biscay. At twenty c. In —, Drake, made his first voyage to the Americas, sailing under Captain John Lovell on one of a fleet of ships owned by the Hawkins family. They attacked Portuguese towns and ships on the coast of West Africa and then sailed to the Americas and sold the captured cargoes of slaves to Spanish plantations. He escaped along with John Hawkins, surviving the attack by swimming. Drake's hostility towards the Spanish is said to have started with this incident and Drake vowed revenge. Inhis reputation enabled him to proceed to the West Indies with two vessels under his command. He renewed his visit the next year for the sole purpose of obtaining information. InDrake embarked on his first major independent enterprise. This was the point at which the silver and gold treasure of Peru had to be landed and sent overland to the Caribbean Seawhere galleons from Spain would pick it up at the town of Nombre de Dios. Drake left Plymouth on 24 Maywith a crew of 73 men in two small vessels, the Pascha 70 tons and the Swan 25 tonsto capture Nombre de Dios. Drake's first raid was late in July Drake formed an alliance with the Cimarrons. Drake and his men captured the town and its treasure. When his men noticed that Drake was bleeding profusely from a wound, they insisted on withdrawing to save his life Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main left the treasure. Drake stayed in the area for almost a year, raiding Spanish shipping and attempting to capture a treasure shipment. He raided the waters around Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main in modern Panama with a crew including many French privateers including Guillaume Le Testua French buccaneer, and African slaves Maroons who had escaped the Spanish. One of these men was Diego, who under Drake became a free man was also a capable ship builder. After their attack on the richly laden mule train, Drake and his party found that they had captured around 20 tons of silver and gold. They buried much of the treasure, as it was too much for their party to carry, and made off with a fortune in gold. Wounded, Le Testu was captured and later beheaded. The small band of adventurers dragged as much gold and silver as they could carry back across some 18 miles of jungle-covered mountains to where they had left the raiding boats. When they got to the coast, the boats were gone. Drake and his men, downhearted, exhausted and hungry, had nowhere to go and the Spanish were not far behind. At this Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main, Drake rallied his men, buried the treasure on the beach, and built a raft to sail with two volunteers ten miles along the surf-lashed coast to where they had left the flagship. When Drake finally reached its deck, his men were alarmed at his bedraggled appearance. Fearing the worst, they asked him how the raid had gone. Drake could not resist a joke and teased them by looking downhearted. Then he laughed, pulled a necklace of Spanish gold from around his neck and said "Our voyage is made, lads! It was during this expedition that Drake climbed a high tree in the central mountains of the Isthmus of Panama and thus became the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean. He remarked as he saw it that he hoped one day an Englishman would be able to sail it — which he would do years later as part of his circumnavigation of the world. When Drake returned to Plymouth after the raids, the government signed a temporary truce with King Philip II of Spain and so was unable to acknowledge Drake's accomplishment officially. Drake was considered a hero in England and a pirate in Spain for his raids. Drake was present at the Rathlin Island massacre in Ireland. Despite their surrender, Norreys' troops killed all the defenders and more than civilian men, women and children of Clan MacDonnell. Therefore, the remaining leader of the Gaelic defence against English power, Sorley Boy MacDonnellwas forced to stay on the mainland. Essex wrote in his letter to Queen Elizabeth's secretary, that following the attack Sorley Boy "was likely to have run mad for sorrow, tearing and tormenting himself and saying that he there lost all that he ever had. With the success of the Panama isthmus raid inElizabeth I of England sent Drake to start an expedition against the Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main along the Pacific coast of the Americas. Drake used the plans that Sir Richard Grenville had received the patent for in from Elizabeth, which was rescinded a year later after protests from Philip of Spain. Diego was once again employed under Drake; his fluency in Spanish and English would make him a useful interpreter when Spaniards or Spanish- speaking Portuguese were captured. He was employed as Drake's servant and was paid wages, just like the rest of the crew. They were forced to take refuge in Falmouth, Cornwallfrom where they returned to Plymouth for repair. After this major setback, Drake set sail again on 13 December aboard Pelican with four other ships and men. He soon added a sixth ship, Mary formerly Santa Mariaa Portuguese merchant Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main that had been captured off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands. He also added its captain, Nuno da Silva, a man with considerable experience navigating in South American waters. Drake's fleet suffered great attrition; he scuttled both Christopher and the flyboat Swan due to loss of men on the Atlantic crossing. He made landfall at the gloomy bay of San Julianin what is now Argentina. Ferdinand Magellan had called here half a century earlier, where he put to death some mutineers. Drake's men saw weathered and bleached skeletons on the grim Spanish gibbets. Following Magellan's example, Drake tried and executed his own "mutineer" Thomas Doughty. The crew discovered that Mary had rotting timbers, so they burned the ship. Drake decided to remain the winter in San Julian before attempting the Strait of Magellan. On his voyage to interfere with Spanish treasure fleets, Drake had several quarrels with his co-commander Thomas Doughty and on 3 Juneaccused him of witchcraft and charged him with mutiny and treason in a shipboard trial. The main pieces of evidence against Doughty were the testimony of the ship's carpenter, Edward Bright, who after the trial was promoted to master of the ship Marigoldand Doughty's admission of telling Lord Burghleya vocal opponent of agitating the Spanish, of the intent of the voyage. Drake consented to his request of Communion and dined Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main him, of which Francis Fletcher had this strange account:. And after this holy repast, they dined also at the same table together, as cheerfully, in sobriety, as ever in their lives they had done aforetime, each cheering up the other, and taking their leave, by drinking each to other, as if some journey only had been in hand. Drake had Thomas Doughty beheaded on 2 July When the ship's chaplain Francis Fletcher in a sermon suggested that the woes of the voyage in January were connected to the unjust demise of Doughty, Drake chained the clergyman to a hatch cover and pronounced him excommunicated. The three remaining ships of his convoy departed for the Magellan Strait at the southern tip of South America. A few weeks later September Drake made it to the Pacific, but violent storms destroyed one of the three ships, the Marigold captained by John Thomas in the strait and caused another, the Elizabeth captained by John Wynterto return to England, leaving only the Pelican. After this passage, the Pelican was pushed south and discovered an island that Drake called Elizabeth Island. Captain Wynter ordered the Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main of great amounts of bark — hence the scientific name. Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that Drake reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage[45] because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea. Drake pushed onwards in his lone flagship, now renamed the Golden Hind in honour of Sir Christopher Hatton after his coat of arms. Some Spanish ships were captured, and Drake used their more accurate charts. Before reaching the coast of PeruDrake visited Mocha Islandwhere he was seriously injured by hostile Mapuche. It would come to be called the Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main. Drake gave chase and eventually captured the treasure ship, which proved his most profitable capture. Drake was naturally pleased at his good luck in capturing the galleon, and he showed it by dining Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main the captured ship's officers and gentleman passengers. He offloaded his captives a short time later, and gave each one gifts appropriate to their rank, as well as a letter of safe conduct. Prior to Drake's voyage, the western coast of North America had only been partially explored in by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo who sailed for Spain. On 5 Junethe ship briefly made first landfall at what is now South Cove, Cape Arago, just south of Coos Bay, Oregon, and then sailed south while searching for a suitable harbour to repair his ailing ship. Drake left the Pacific coast, heading southwest to catch the winds that would carry his ship across the Pacific, and a few months later reached the Moluccasa group of islands in the western Pacific, in eastern modern-day Indonesia. At this time Diego died from wounds he had sustained earlier in the voyage, Drake was saddened at his death having become a good friend. After the sailors waited three days for convenient tides and had dumped cargo. Befriending Sultan Babullah of Ternate in the Moluccas, Drake and his men became involved in some intrigues with the Portuguese there. He made multiple stops on his way toward the tip of Africa, eventually rounded the Cape of Good Hopeand reached Sierra Leone by 22 July The Queen's half-share of the cargo surpassed the rest of the crown's income for that entire year. Drake was hailed as the first Englishman to circumnavigate the Earth and the second such voyage arriving with at least one ship intact, after Elcano 's in