was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a...
A pair of fishermen on their boat of the coast of Spain pull an old man out of the ocean who became entangled in their fishing net. He gasps "Ponce de Leon" and the men quickly sail to shore and bring him to the Spanish monarch. The young monarch learns of the Fountain of Youth, ...
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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002 Translations Spanish / Español Select a language: piratería piracy [ˈpaɪərəsɪ]N(lit) →pirateríaf; [of book] →publicaciónfpirata; [of tape, video,...
ACCORDING TO Edward Kritzler’s Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, as early as 1501 the Spanish Crown published an edict that “Moors, Jews, heretics, reconciliados (repentants – those who returned to the church), and New Christians are not allowed to go to the Indies.” ...
The HMS Interceptor was a brig in the British Royal Navy, serving under King George II, most notably under the command of Captain, later Commodore, James Norrington. As a ship in the British fleet, along with the HMS Dauntless, the Interceptor was purpor
After an argument over the capture of a Spanish ship, Kelley left Williams and joined Cook aboard the Bachelor's Delight and they plundered the South American Pacific coast until 1688 when Cook died and Edward Davis took command of the ship. While in Jamaica, Kelley left Davis' company, ...
During his short career on the sea, he managed to amass the vast fleet of pirate ships that became stronger than any military might that roamed Atlantic.Richard Worley Richard Worley was a pirate who operated in the in the Caribbean Sea and the east coast of the American colonies. He was ...
Caribbean islands and American continents. However, Spain strived to keep her possessions from the rest of the world by any means. When English occupied Jamaica, providing a base for the buccaneers to launch theirs attack to Spanish settlements, the conflict inflated, as the rise of the ...
State power in a chronically weak state: Spanish coastguards as pirates, 1814-50.Explores how Spanish state's bankruptcy contributed to the emergence of Spanish coastguards as pirates in 1841 to 1850. Financial problems facing Spain since 1814; Decline of Spanish navy; Privateering coastguard; ...