A City Tossed and Broken by Judy Blundell

He and 30 volunteers captured a fort, disabled its cannons, and set a fire that engulfed the town. On April 22, 1778, the audacious Jones led “a small detachment of two boats from his ship, the USS Ranger, to raid the shallow port at Whitehaven, England, where, by his own account, 400 British merchant ships were anchored,” according to.

John Paul Jones was-arguably-the greatest naval commander in the nation’s history daring and dedicated during the Revolutionary War, he eventually earned the epithet “Father of the American Navy.” The Grateful American Book Prize recommends A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner: San Francisco, California, 1906 by Judy Blundell. According to, it “was caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long, and shock waves could be felt from southern Oregon down to Los Angeles.” On April 18, 1906, San Francisco was flattened by a once-in-a 200-year-7.8-seismic–calamity that rubbed out 3,000 residents and planed 30,000 buildings.

Geological Survey tremors occur every three minutes, but most are undetectable.Įven so, two or three sizeable shocks pop up each year, which cause confined upheaval up to 5.5 on the Richter Scale.

California is the land of cloudless climate-and-episodic earthquakes.

A City Tossed and Broken by Judy Blundell