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George Anton Schaeffer: Shipping Germans to Brazil

George Anton Schaeffer: Shipping Germans to Brazil

Croft, Lee B.

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ISBN10: 0985890827
ISBN13: 9780985890827
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 29 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.64 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
George Anton Schaeffer leaves Russia in 1813 after being involved in a secret plan of Tsar Alexander I to have a giant shark-shaped, hydrogen filled, balloon made to drop timed-fuse explosives on Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army in 1812. As part of a Russian-American-Company-chartered circumnavigation of the world he is stranded in Sitka, Alaska, from where Russian-American Manager Alexander Baranov sends him on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands. There he meddles in island politics, becoming the de facto ruler of Kaua'i with its last independent King Kaumuali'i and building forts there in 1816-7 which remain to this day. This book, the THIRD in a trilogy, describes the life of his wife Barbara who waits for him in St. Petersburg for over five years, and his adventures paying the way to Brazil, where he founds a colony called Frankenthal in the Bahia State, of thousands of German mercenaries and emigrant families for Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro I.

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