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An Attack on a Galleon  1905

by Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle's story captures the dangers of waters around the colonial ports of Central and South America in the seventeenth century, when ships carrying the plundered wealth of the "New World" to the Spanish crown were often attacked by pirates. This massive galleon is at the mercy of a small, lethal pirates’ craft. Billowing smoke illuminated by gunfire signals the assau...
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