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30 dic 2021 · The real pirates of the Caribbean were desperate criminals, mostly men but some women, too, who plundered easy targets like unarmed merchant ships in the Caribbean Sea from 1690 to 1730. Famous pirates include Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Bartholomew Roberts, and Anne Bonny.
- Mark Cartwright
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- The Hollywood film series the Pirates of the Caribbean has many characters based on real pirates who plundered the Caribbean from 1690 to 1730 duri...
- There was no historical pirate called Jack Sparrow but some aspects of his appearance, character, and behaviour can be traced to many different rea...
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15 mag 2024 · Who Were the Real Pirates of the Caribbean? During the Golden Age of Piracy, thousands of sea dogs sought fame and fortune. But the reality of a pirate’s life was less enticing than movies and ...
24 gen 2019 · The real pirates of the Caribbean were violent, desperate thieves who thought nothing of murder, torture, and mayhem. Meet some of the men and women behind the infamous legends. 01
- Who Were The Real Pirates of The Caribbean?
- The Real Pirates of The Caribbean
- Gold, Silver and Slavery
- What Made The Caribbean So Pirate-Friendly?
- How Did It All End?
While Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean films are entirely fictional, there is no doubting that the Caribbean was the centre of piracy in the ‘Golden Age of Piracy’.
In the 17th century, buccaneers lived on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola and its tiny turtle-shaped neighbour, Tortuga. At first, they lived as hunters, and shot wild pigs with their long-barrelled muskets. Their name came from the special wooden huts called boucans where they smoked their meat. Later, the governors of Caribbean islands such as ...
From the 16th century, large Spanish ships, called galleons, began to sail back to Europe, loaded with precious cargoes that pirates found impossible to resist. So many successful pirate attacks were made that galleons were forced to sail together in fleets with armed vessels for protection. Spain’s European rivals especially the French and British...
Pirates, like smugglers need convenient hide-aways and the Caribbean with its many islands and thousands of bays provided the perfect terrain for raiders.The local population had been largely killed off by accidentally imported European diseases to which they had no resistance. With constant malaria and frequent epidemics of yellow fever raging thro...The existence of thriving land bases such as Nassau where pirates could sell their ill-gotten (or officially-approved) gains was crucial to the pirate economy.While the Caribbean was primarily a staging post for Spanish treasure on its way to Madrid, there was little incentive for the British, French or Dutch to do much to discourage piracy. As Spanish power declined and Britain and France asserted themselves as the dominant regional powers it became obvious that potentially lucrative colonies where slav...
2 lug 2020 · It's the real pirates of the Caribbean—and the Carolinas. Privateers, buccaneers, and scurvy sea dogs prowled the Caribbean and the Atlantic in search of booty as the 'Golden Age of Piracy'...
- María Lara Martínez
Real piracy was seldom glamorous or romantic. Pirates’ careers were typically violent, brutish, and short, their lives ended by battle, the hangman’s noose, or more often, by any of a slew of diseases and illnesses. Relatively few pirates ever seized enough treasure upon which to retire.
29 mag 2017 · A map of the Caribbean depicting some of the pirates' bases and the location of significant events.
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