6 despicable pirates from history
As world trade burgeoned in the age of colonial expansion, valuable cargoes were transported across the world's oceans, providing vast opportunity for piracy on the seas. Writing for History Extra, Eric Jay Dolin presents six of history's most despicable buccaneers who plundered the seas, from the ports of the American colonies to the Indian Ocean…
January 11, 2019 at 11:16 am
The Golden Age of piracy (c1680s–1726) was the most dramatic era of maritime marauding the world has ever known, a period which at its peak saw as many as 4,000 pirates a year wreaking havoc across the Atlantic and Indian oceans. The age of colonial expansion meant that huge quantities of valuable cargoes were being shipped over vast ocean areas and, as European navies were reduced, many experienced sailors who were out of work turned to piracy.
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