The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don….

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe..

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventi….

The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge, not just i….