The Spanish Convoy of 1750: Heaven's Hammer and International Diplomacy

About the Author, Further Reading

James A. Lewis is a retired professor of history at Western Carolina University. He studied under John Tate Lanning at Duke University, and among his publications are The Final Campaign of the American Revolution: Rise and Fall of the Spanish Bahamas (1991) and Neptune’s Militia: The Frigate South Carolina during the American Revolution (1999). New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology Edited by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith Maritime Heritage of the Cayman Islands, by Roger C. Smith (1999; first paperback edition, 2000) The Three German Navies: Dissolution, Transition, and New Beginnings, 1945–1960, by Douglas C. Peifer (2002) The Rescue of the Gale Runner: Death, Heroism, and the U.S. Coast Guard, by Dennis L. Noble (2002); first paperback edition, 2008 Brown Water Warfare: The U.S. Navy in Riverine Warfare and the Emergence of a Tacti­ cal Doctrine, 1775–1970, by R. Blake Dunnavent (2003) Sea Power in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Catalan­Aragonese Fleet in the War of the Sicilian Vespers by Lawrence V. Mott (2003) An Admiral for America: Sir Peter Warren, Vice­Admiral of the Red, 1703–1752, by Julian Gwyn (2004) Maritime History as World History, edited by Daniel Finamore (2004) Counterpoint to Trafalgar: The Anglo­Russian Invasion of Naples, 1805–1806, by William Henry Flayhart III (first paperback edition, 2004) Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942, by Thaddeus D. Novak, edited by P. J. Capelotti (2005) X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy, edited by Russell K. Skowronek Charles R. Ewen (2006, first paperback edition 2007) Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Con­ struction, 1820–1920, by William H. Thiesen (2006) Admiral Lord Keith and the Naval War against Napoleon, by Kevin D. McCranie (2006) Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early American Navy, by John H. Schroeder (2006) Borderland Smuggling; Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820, by Joshua M. Smith (2006) Brutality on Trial: “Hellfire” Pedersen, “Fighting” Hansen, and the Seamen’s Act of 1915, by E. Kay Gibson (2006) Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy, by Ira Dye (2006) Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I, by William N. Still, Jr. (2006) Chinese Junks on the Pacific: Views from a Different Deck, by Hans K. Van Tilburg (2007) Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History: Trade, Piracy, and Naval Warfare in the Central Mediterranean, by Ayşe Devrim Atauz (2007) Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II, by George J. Billy and Christine M. Billy (2008) The Steamboat Montana and the Opening of the West: History, Excavation, and Architec­ ture, by Annalies Corbin and Bradley A. Rodgers (2008) Attack Transport: USS Charles Carroll in World War II, by Kenneth H. Goldman (2008) Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922–1933, by William Reynolds Braisted (2009) Sir Samuel Hood and the Battle of the Chesapeake, by Colin Pengelly (2009) Voyages, The Age of Sail: Documents in Maritime History, Volume I, 1492–1865; Volume II: The Age of Engines, 1865–Present, edited by Joshua M. Smith and the National Maritime Historical Society (2009) Voyages, The Age of Engines: Documents in Maritime History, Volume II, 1865–Present edited by Joshua M. Smith and the National Maritime Historical Society (2009) H.M.S. Fowey Lost . . . and Found!, by Russell K. Skowronek and George R. Fischer (2009) American Coastal Rescue Craft: A Design History of Coastal Rescue Craft Used by the United States Life­Saving Service and the United States Coast Guard, by William D. Wilkinson and Commander Timothy R. Dring, USNR (Retired) (2009) The Spanish Convoy of 1750: Heaven’s Hammer and International Diplomacy, by James A. Lewis (2009) The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo­American Naval Policy 1900–1953, by Peter V. Nash (2009) Captain “Hell Roaring” Mike Healy: From American Slave to Arctic Hero, by Dennis L. Noble and Truman R. Strobridge (2009) Sovereignty at Sea: U.S. Merchant Ships and America’s Entry into World War I, by Rodney Carlisle (2009) ...