by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 2, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 32 Hugh shook his head. “But I cannot stand to gain by that blood, either, Hyarima. How may I invite my people to live in this place, knowing the houses in which they dwell, the fields in which they work, were made...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 30, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 31 Chapter 17 Just outside San José de Oruña, Trinidad “I am O’Donnell,” replied Hugh, “and I do speak Spanish, as does my second-in-command, Aodh O’Rourke. We thank you for honoring us...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 28, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 30 Again, O’Rourke nodded. “Aye, you’ve the right of all that.” His voice became dark and regretful. “But those past days of Ireland are not these days. And kings now must tread a different,...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 25, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 29 Chapter 16 Just outside San José de Oruña, Trinidad So far, everything had gone as the three of them had planned. Which many men might have found reassuring, but over the course of his life, Hugh O’Donnell had...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 23, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 28 Chapter 15 Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Morning started for Hugh O’Donnell with the face of his aide and old friend Aodh O’Rourke scowling down at him. “A fine example to your men, sleeping away half the...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 21, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 27 Chapter 14 Nezpique Bayou, Louisianna After motoring two and a half miles along the winding Nezpique Bayou, Templeton pointed up through a gap in the canopy. “There. Smoke. Up ahead.” “Smoke?”...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 18, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 26 In hindsight, he might have been able to make it out of Galveston Bay under sail alone, but in the event that the wind became fickle at just the moment she was running a gauntlet between two close sandbars, Haraldsen...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 16, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 25 Larry’s definitive reply was two-fold. Firstly, contacting the indigenous people was a crucial part of the mission because Grantville had made its cooperation with oil extraction contingent upon recognizing the...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 14, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 24 Chapter 13 Upper Mermentau River, Louisiana Major Larry Quinn rested an index finger on young Karl Klemm’s right shoulder as they moved out of the stronger current of the upper Mermentau River. “A little...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 11, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 23 De Curco y San Joan started as if struck. “P-parole? You are freeing us?” “In a manner of speaking. Forty miles north of here, just south of Guadeloupe, are a pair of small islands known as...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 9, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 22 Of the seventeen galleons that had been merchantmen, two had been sunk outright and two more would be scuttled as soon as their off-loading was completed. Of the thirteen that remained, five would require extensive...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 7, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 21 Chapter 12 East of Dominica Shortly after a skiff delivered Tromp to the Amelia, the first preliminary report of the engagement was handed to him. La Flota, as hoped and anticipated, had elected not to split into its...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 4, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 20 Chapter 11 East of Dominica Tromp was still watching black smoke rise, unabated, from the merchantman that Omlandia and Wappen van Rotterdam had battered into submission when drums and a coronet announced the approach...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 2, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 19 In a day that had been difficult for gunnery to begin with, and with marginally substandard accuracy, the gun crews of Resolve’s naval rifles redeemed themselves in that moment: one round went in amidships, the...
by Drak Bibliophile | Aug 31, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 18 Chapter 10 East of Dominica Maarten Tromp empathized with the Spanish, even if he felt less than an iota of sympathy for them. If they had had a balloon of their own, they could have foreseen each step of the disaster...