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Under the Bloody Flag

Autor John Appleby
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2009
Long before Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Black Barty terrorized the Caribbean, the seas around the British Isles swarmed with pirates. Thousands of men turned to piracy at sea, often as a makeshift strategy of survival. Piracy was a business, not a way of life. Although the young Francis Drake became the most famous pirate of the period, scores of little-known pirate leaders operated during this time, acquiring mixed reputations on land and at sea. Captain Henry Strange ways earned notoriety for his attacks on French shipping in the Channel and the Irish Sea, selling booty ashore in south-west England and Wales. John Callice, and his associates, sailed in consort with others, including another arch-pirate, Robert Hicks, plundering French, Spanish, Danish and Scottish shipping, in voyages that ranged from Scotland to Spain. The first British pirates led erratic careers, but their roving in local waters paved the way for the more aggressive and ambitious deep-sea piracy in the Caribbean.
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ISBN-13: 9780752448510
ISBN-10: 075244851X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 166 x 238 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.76 kg
Editura: History Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

John Appleby contributed to Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650 and also contributed an article on Irish female pirates to The Oxford History of the British Empire.