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BL
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767138
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b587122
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| Main Entry
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Jean Marteilhe ; edited with an introduction by Vincent McInerney.
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| Title & Author
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Galley slave\ Jean Marteilhe ; edited with an introduction by Vincent McInerney.
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| Publication Statement
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Barnsley : Seaforth, 2010
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| Series Statement
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Seafarers' voices, 1
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xii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
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| ISBN
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1848320701
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: 9781848320703
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| Contents
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Introduction --; Foreword: A description of a galley, its crew, and method of fighting --; 1. Flight and capture 1700-1701 --; 2. The prisons at Tournay [Tournai] and Lille --; 3. To Dunkirk [Dunkerque] and the galley chain 1702 --; 4. Incidents at the galleys, Dunkirk 1703-1705 --; 5. We almost perish in a great storm, Dunkirk 1707 --; 6. Our galley destroyed, the crew massacred, Dunkirk 1708 --; 7. At Dunkirk 1709 --; 8. We are removed with great torments from the galleys at Dunkirk to those at Marseilles 1712 --; 9. The last of the chains 1713.
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| Abstract
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A ... first hand account of a galley slave in the early eighteenth century, written by a French Protestant who was subjected to harrowing conditions and murderous toil. all for the sake of his beliefs.--Back cover.
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| Subject
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Galley slaves -- France -- Biography.
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Huguenots -- France -- Biography.
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| Subject
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Marteilhe, Jean, -- 1684-1777.
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| Added Entry
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Jean Marteilhe
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Vincent McInerney
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| Parallel Title
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Mémoires d'un protestant.
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