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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
Long before Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Black Bart 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. 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 Strangeways earned notoriety for his attacks on French shipping in the English Channel and the Irish Sea, selling booty ashore in southwest 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. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.
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Pirates -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
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Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Tudors, 1485-1603.
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Electronic books.
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Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Appleby, John C. Under the bloody flag. Stroud : History Press, 2009. 9780752448510 (hbk.) (DLC)2010285740 |
| ISBN |
9780752475868 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9780752475868 |
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