Modern archaeologists and treasure hunters still dive in the Caribbean for remnants of the once immense piracy activity there, peeking around 1600. half a billion Euro . Tordesillas privateers Francis Drake 1574 hog hunters became ...See moreModern archaeologists and treasure hunters still dive in the Caribbean for remnants of the once immense piracy activity there, peeking around 1600. half a billion Euro . Tordesillas privateers Francis Drake 1574 hog hunters became buccaneers. A captured French physician wrote down their gruesome practices during 12 years and learned to see their side too as rejects forging a new life respecting an egalitarian 'honor code'. Henry Morgan managed to unite all pirates under his command as 'admiral', protected by the Jamaican governor, who allowed him a capital there named port Royal, coming close to found an alternative state when king Charles named him vice-governor, charged with eliminating his former colleagues who fail to accept the 1714 amnesty, which ended the era. In order to preserve their prize, pirates invented special ammunition to deal separately with sails and crew without risk of sinking the ship. Written by
KGF Vissers
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