South American Fights and Fighters

About this eBook

Author

Brady, Cyrus Townsend, 1861-1920

Title

South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure

Credits

E-text prepared by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

F1401: Latin America local history: General

Subject

Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20910

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20910

Release Date

March 26, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1."The Poor Little Governor . . . Distanced His Fierce Pursuers at Last" — AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS SERIES — South American Fights and Fighters
2. 2.AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
3. 3.CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, LL. D. — ILLUSTRATIONS BY SEYMOUR M. STONE, GEORGE GIBBS, W. J. AYLWARD AND J. N. MARCHAND — TOGETHER WITH REPRODUCTIONS FROM OLD PRINTS AND PORTRAITS — GARDEN CITY ———— NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY MCMXIII — To George William Beatty Good Fellow, Good Citizen Good Friend
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS — PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS — PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
6. 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
7. 7.PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS — I — Panama and the Knights-Errant of Colonization — I. The Spanish Main — II. The Don Quixote of Discoveries and His Rival — "Ojeda Galloped Off with His Astonished Captive" — "The Indians Poured a Rain of Poisoned Arrows" — III. The Adventures of Ojeda — IV. Enter One Vasco Nuñez de Balboa — V. The Desperate Straits of Nicuesa — II — Panama, Balboa and a Forgotten Romance — I. The Coming of the Devastator — "Balboa . . . Engaged in Superintending the Roofing of a House" — II. The Greatest Exploit since Columbus's Voyage — "The Expedition Had to Fight Its Way Through Tribes of Warlike and Ferocious Mountaineers" — "He Took Possession of the Sea in the Name of Castile and Leon" — "He Threw the Sacred Volume to the Ground in a Violent Rage" — III. "Furor Domini" — IV. The End of Balboa — III — Peru and the Pizarros — A Study in Retribution "They that take the sword shall perish by the sword." — I. The Chief Scion of a Famous Family — II. The Terrible Persistence of Pizarro — III. "A Communistic Despotism." — IV. The Treacherous and Bloody Massacre of Caxamarca. — V. The Ransom and Murder of the Inca — "They Burst Upon the Ranks of the Unarmed Indians." — "The Three Pizarros . . . Sallied Out to Meet Them" — VI. The Inca and the Peruvians Strike Vainly for Freedom — "He Threw His Sole Remaining Weapon in the Faces of the Escaladers" — VII. "The Men of Chili" and the Civil Wars — Fernando Cortes. From a Picture in the Florence Gallery — VIII. The Mean End of the Great Conquistador — IX. The Last of the Brethren — IV — The Greatest Adventure in History — I. The Chief of all the Soldiers of Fortune — II. The Expedition to Mexico. — III. The Religion of the Aztecs — IV. The March to Tenochtitlan — V. The Republic of Tlascala — VI. Cortes' Description of Mexico, written by his own hand to Charles V., Emperor of Germany and King of Spain — VII. The Meeting with Montezuma — VIII. The Seizure of the Emperor — IX. The Revolt of the Capital — X. In God's Way — The Death of Montezuma. From an old engraving. — "He Defended Himself With His Terrible Spear" — XI. The Melancholy Night — XII. The Siege and Destruction of Mexico — XIII. A Day of Desperate Fighting — XIV. The Last Mexican — XV. The End of Cortes
8. 8.PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE — I — The Yarn of the Essex , Whaler — "The Ship Came to a Dead Stop" — "The Killing of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr, at Weehawken, New Jersey, July 11, 1804" — II — Some Famous American Duels — I. A Tragedy of Old New York — II. Andrew Jackson as a Duellist — III. The Killing of Stephen Decatur — IV. An Episode in the Life of James Bowie — V. A Famous Congressional Duel — VI. The Last Notable Duel in America — III — The Cruise of the Tonquin — A Forgotten Tragedy in Early American History — IV — John Paul Jones — Being Further Light on His Strange Career[1] — I. The Birth of the American Navy — II. Jones First Hoists the Stars and Stripes — III. The Battle With the Serapis — IV. A Hero's Famous Sayings — V. What Jones Did for His Country — VI. Why Did He Take the Name of Jones? — VII. Search for Historical Evidence — VIII. The Joneses of North Carolina — IX. Paul Jones Never a Man of Wealth — V — In the Caverns of the Pitt — A Story of a Forgotten Fight with the Indians — VI — Being a Boy Out West — INDEX — A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — U — V — W — X — Y — Z

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