Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood - an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. Captain Blood - tells about the events that took place in England of the 17th century. After the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in the country, the formation of the British Empire began. And the first thing she had to do was start a war with Spain, the largest colonial power of the time.

The novel Captain Blood turned out to be so popular that Sabatini wrote two more continuation books: “The Chronicle of Captain Blood” and “Good luck to Captain Blood”. The novel has repeatedly been filmed. The main hero of the novel Captain Blood is Peter Blood. His adventures begin in the city of Bridgewater shortly before the Battle of Sejmur. Peter Blood (Bachelor of Medicine) provides assistance to Lord Guild, who was injured during the Monmouth rebellion. Government troops rush into the house where the rebel is hiding and arrest Lord Gildoy, the owner of the house, Jeremy Pitt, who brought Blood to Guild, and the doctor himself. On September 19, 1685, Peter Blood appeared in court on treason. The court found Blood guilty and sentenced to be hanged. But King Jacob II needed slaves in the southern colonies and 1,100 insurgents were sent there, including Peter Blood.