Click2Flicks - Pirates of the Caribbean - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch2.htm">2. THE "SPANISH MAIN"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch3.htm">3. SPANISH PORTS FALL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch4.htm">4. A NATURAL DISASTER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch5.htm">5. EARTHQUAKE!</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch6.htm">6. PORT ROYAL EARTHQUAKE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch7.htm">7. PIRATE-AGE PORT ROYAL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch8.htm">8. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><b><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <blockquote><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">I have seen wicked men and fools,<br> a great many of both;<br> and I believe they both get paid in the end;<br> but the fools first.<br><br></b></i></b> David Balfour in <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lepkV4sQ0ZV4zll7NGxa3uYRO20/cZPUOYy3MqfmtDTwV3stgYL++Snn1Ujn/eH76hU=" target-"_blank" target="_blank"><i><b>Kidnapped</b></i></a><br> by Robert Louis <a target="_blank" href="images/stevenson.jpg"><b>Stevenson</b></a><br> Chapter 14<br><br></font></blockquote> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">It was the 17th century. Port Royal, a <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cia02/jamaica_sm02.gif" target="_blank"><b>Jamaican</b></a> <a href="images/seaport.jpg" target="_blank"><b>seaport</b></a>, was the most economically <a href="images/important.jpg" target="_blank"><b>important</b></a> English-speaking town in the Western Hemisphere.</p> <p>But Port Royal, <a href="images/home.jpg" target="_blank"><b>home</b></a> <a href="images/base.jpg" target="_blank"><b>base</b></a> for <a href="images/pirates.jpg" target="_blank"><b>pirates</b></a> and an English Governor, was about to experience an earthshaking change of fortune. On June 7, 1692, two-thirds of the city slid into the sea and 2,000 <a href="images/people.jpg" target="_blank"><b>people</b></a> died. </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="pirates_caribbean_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>