History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 11 French ships in the Pacific, 1708-17

Levesque, Rodrigue. History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 11 French ships in the Pacific, 1708-17. 11. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-11-4.

Abstract: Volume 11 (HOM.11) contains 62 chapters totaling 158 documents and 42 illustrations. The bulk of these documents have to do with the appearance of French ships at Guam during this period, at least 17 of them. The illustration above is that of the ship St.-Antoine-de-Padoue, Captain Frondat. Other documents deal with English pirates such as Woodes Rogers, with more Spanish voyages of exploration to the Carolines (including one led by a German sailor), with subsidies, etc. The population of Guam had been reduced to one- third its size at conquest. The contents of HOM were compiled, translated, edited and annotated by Rodrigue Levesque. Rod located and made novel translations of thousands of documents between 1992 and 2002. These were organized in forty massive volumes, with only the first twenty being printed in physical, hardbound form. In 2022, the US nonprofit Habele obtained the copyrights to the full History of Micronesia series with the aim of offering free and navigable access to the public.