The Lost Fleet

The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy

By: Barry Clifford, Kenneth Kinkor

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Paperback | 21 October 2003

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On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.

Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'Estr©es, The Lost Fleet portrays a dark age, when the outcasts of European society formed a democracy of buccaneers, settling on a string of islands off the African coast. From there, the pirates haunted the world's oceans, wreaking havoc on the settlements along the Spanish mainland and -- often enlisted by French and English governments -- sacking ships, ports, and coastal towns.

More than three hundred years later, writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford follows the pirates' destructive wake back to Venezuela. With the help of a lost map, drawn by the captain of the lost French fleet, Clifford locates the site of the disaster and wreckage of the once-mighty armada.

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Preface	p. ix
The French Fleet	p. 1
The Buccaneers	p. 7
Las Aves--Round One	p. 19
A Desolate Place	p. 23
"Beasts of Prey"	p. 31
A Change of Plans	p. 36
Over the Reef	p. 42
The Blue Lagoon	p. 46
The Chevalier de Grammont	p. 55
The Sack of Maracaibo	p. 61
Curiosity Sparks Expedition	p. 66
Logistics	p. 71
A Pleasant Accident	p. 79
The Sack of Caracas	p. 86
Ready for the Ends of the Earth	p. 94
Tools of the Trade	p. 101
The Recidivism of Thomas Paine	p. 108
A Homecoming for a Pirate	p. 114
In the Wake of Jean Comte d'Estrees	p. 119
A Visit from the Navy	p. 126
"A Great and Mischievous Pirate"	p. 130
Nikolaas Van Hoorn	p. 138
The Documentary That Officially Wasn't	p. 145
Where the Wrecks Are	p. 151
Unwelcome Intrusions	p. 157
The Sack of Vera Cruz	p. 162
The Search Continues	p. 169
Mapping	p. 173
War and Peace	p. 178
The Wooing of Laurens de Graff	p. 186
Of Destruction and Death	p. 196
Of Men-of-War and Pirates	p. 208
Flibustier	p. 212
The Battle at Alacran Reef	p. 224
A Naval Officer at War	p. 233
From Good to Bad to Ugly	p. 244
Cannons, Anchors, and Surf	p. 250
A Pirate Reaches Retirement	p. 256
The Legacy of Las Aves	p. 265
Notes	p. 273
Acknowledgments	p. 283
Credits	p. 285
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