Piracy

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Piracy

• is robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the
  shore, by an agent without a commission from a
  sovereign nation.

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The Golden Age of Piracy

• Mid 18th century to early 19th century
• Many of the historical pirates we know of were
  not as villainous as they have been portrayed. In
  fact, many were invaluable to the United States
  as an emerging world power.
• Before we go therewords you need to know

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Bunccaneer-

• Buccaneer is a term that was used in the later
  17th century in the Caribbean Islands to refer to
  pirates who attacked Spanish shipping.

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Privateer-

• A privateer was a private warship authorized by a
  country's government by letters of marque to
  attack foreign shipping. Strictly, a privateer
  was only entitled to attack enemy vessels during
  wartime. However, states often encouraged attacks
  on opposing powers while at peace, or on neutral
  vessels during time of war, blurring the line
  between privateering and piracy.

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Infamous Pirate Hangout 1 Port Royal, Jamaica

• The buccaneers helped England secure Jamaica as
  its own, about 1662.
• The first governor was empowered to issue
  privateering commissions, and the English
  buccaneers were welcomed into the port. Later,
  this place became known as the wickedest city in
  the world.
• Port Royal was home base for many pirates and
  privateers.

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Infamous Pirate Hangout 2 Tortuga

• Tortuga was uninhabited in the 1600s, but Spain
  claimed ownership since it was near Haiti.
• In 1630, some English buccaneers, who had escaped
  Barbados along with various other Europeans, fled
  to Hispaniola and then to Tortuga.
• This little island became the scene of the most
  drunken and depraved behavior known at the time.
  And the pirates loved it!

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Tortuga
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On to the pirates and privateers-
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Sir Henry Morgan

• Plays by the rules until he doesnt have to
  anymore
• Captured Panama
• the greatest and cruelest of the Brethren of the
  Coast.

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Calico Jack Rackham

• calico fabric shirts
• small-time pirate.
• 2 chicks in hiding
• 1 wicked flag
• No torture for this guy
• Bad end

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The scoop on Anne Bonny

• A scandalous start
• Married
• changed her mind
• Cross dressing
• Mysterious end

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Mary Read

• Another scandalous start
• Cross dressing for cash
• Killing in the name of love

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Blackbeard (Edward Teach)

• was the most notorious of the pirates of the
  Caribbean.
• Queen Annes Revenge.
• My beards on fire!
• held the town to ransom.

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Grace OMalley

• Irish
• Theres about to be a girl fight
• Hell hath no fury
• Having a baby no problem

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The Jamestown Connection
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Captain Christopher Newport

• commanded the ship the Susan Constant to
  Jamestown.
• an English privateer contracted by James I to
  conduct raids on Spanish ships returning from
  Central and South America.
• The Lost Colony (Roanoke) was supposed to be a
  privateering base for England.
• Newport was the most notorious privateer of the
  time!

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Cool pirate books-

• Patrick Pringle, Jolly Roger
• Hoppe, Pirates, Buccaneers and Gentlemen
  Adventurers Captain
• Charles Johnson's A General History of the
  Pyrates
• Chambers, Eyewitness Pirate
• Druett, Joan. 2000. She Captains Heroines and
  Hellions of the Sea.

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• Anne Bonny,Tale of a Lady Pirate by Robert Q.
  Hoyt
• Pirate Spirit The Adventures of Anne Bonny by
  Jeffrey Williams
• Webcomic Sea Monsters
• Outrageous Women of the Renaissance by Vicki Leon
• Chambers, Anne. "Ireland's Pirate Queen The True
  Story of Grace O'Malley."
• Cook, Judith. 2004. Pirate Queen, the life of
  Grace O'Malley 1530-1603.

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JUST A REMINDER

• CHAPTER 20 SECTION 1 AND 2 OPEN NOTE QUIZ WILL BE
  MONDAY FEBRUARY 11TH-BE READY WITH NOTES YOUVE
  TAKEN FOR HOMEWORK!!

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