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  2. Piracy in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Pirates of the Caribbean films. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales; Muppet Treasure Island; Nate and Hayes, also known as Savage Islands ...

  3. Republic of Pirates - Wikipedia

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    Although pirates such as Charles Vane and Blackbeard evaded capture, Hornigold did take ten pirates prisoner and on the morning of 12 December 1718, nine of them were executed. This act re-established British control and ended the pirates' republic in the Bahamas. Those pirates who had fled successfully continued their piratical activities ...

  4. Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia

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    Most pirates in this era were of Welsh, English, Dutch, Irish, and French origin. Many pirates came from poorer urban areas in search of a way to make money and of reprieve. London in particular was known for high unemployment, crowding, and poverty which drove people to piracy. Piracy also offered power and quick riches. [citation needed]

  5. Timeline of piracy in the Bay of Honduras - Wikipedia

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    13 January – 13 January: Lutheran pirates or privateers, aboard three ships and a chalupa, raid Puerto Caballos. [31] 1573. 23 February – 22 March: Francis Drake, with 17 men aboard the Minion, or John Oxenham aboard the Bear, cruise the Bay (and land at Guanaxa) during their Caribbean expedition. [32] [33] 1575

  6. Pirate code - Wikipedia

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    A painting depicting a marooned pirate, according to Howard Pyle.. The first set of the "Pirate's Code" was supposedly written by the Portuguese buccaneer Bartolomeu Português sometime in the early 1660s, [1] but the first recorded set belonged to George Cusack who was active from 1668 to 1675. [2]

  7. Did pirates advance democracy? David Graeber's last book ...

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    In a pirate stronghold on the lush eastern shore of Madagascar, the child of a native-born sorceress and a roving buccaneer unites warring kingdoms, fends off a tyrant from the mountains and ...

  8. Piracy in the Atlantic World - Wikipedia

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    In 1670 Morgan led a fleet of thirty-six ships and 1,846 men, the largest fleet of pirates or privateers ever assembled in Caribbean history. [5] Pirates, in contrast, acted on their own without official political sanction. Pirates were unauthorized by the state and did not avoid targeting the ships and settlements of their own nations of origin.

  9. Piracy - Wikipedia

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    Jean Lafitte was just one of hundreds of pirates operating in American and Caribbean waters between the years of 1820 and 1835. The United States Navy repeatedly engaged pirates in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean. Cofresí's El Mosquito was disabled in a collaboration between Spain and the United States. After fleeing for ...