![]() ![]() ![]() Two months later Blood was brought to trial on a charge of high treason before the infamous Judge Jeffreys. ![]() This act of mercy was to change his life. with the sound of hammering on his door.īlood was called urgently to treat a young nobleman wounded in the rebellion during the night a man who had been a friendly and generous patron to him and to whom he felt indebted. It was no concern to him and that night he went to bed early and didn’t wake until 4 a.m. He spent two years in a Spanish prison and later served with the French in their wars against the Spanish Netherlands.Īs the story opens, he was in England working as a doctor, when an attempt was made by the Duke of Monmouth (the illegitimate son of Charles II and Lucy Walter) to overthrow James II after Charles’ death.īlood watched the men of the town as they rallied under Monmouth’s banner head off to what he knew would be ignominious defeat. Peter Blood was a thirty-two year old Irish physician who had taken service with the Dutch under the great admiral de Ruyter and fought against France. Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini is an exciting adventure story which begins around 1685 when King James II was on the throne of England. ![]()
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