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As consistent trade increased between Spain and Portugal and the East and West Indies, respectively, so did piracy. What Spain and Portugal would call piracy was often sponsored by, even if only at times marginally, monarchs such as Queen Elizabeth I and King Edward VI. Most popular in this era of privateers was Francis Drake. Drake raided ...
Piracy was clearly on a strong decline by 1720. The Golden Age of Piracy did not last the decade. The events of the latter half of 1718 (including the arrival of Governor Woodes Rogers in Nassau) represent a turning point in the history of piracy in the New World. Without a safe base and with growing pressure from naval forces, the rovers lost ...
The obvious answer as to why a sailor would become a pirate is for the potentially enormous monetary gain. These gains were impossible to achieve in the navy or working on merchant ships. [21]: 11–13 While many pirates were caught and punished by the state, untold numbers disappeared, presumably with their newly acquired riches.
The West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations were a series of military operations and engagements undertaken by the United States Navy against pirates in and around the Antilles. Between 1814 and 1825, the American West Indies Squadron hunted pirates on both sea and land, primarily around Cuba and Puerto Rico . [ 1 ]
Then came the news that a former student at Miami Palmetto Senior High was coming back to Miami. Welcome home, Jeff Bezos. Bezos, the world’s No. 2 richest man and the founder of Amazon, came to ...
Piracy usually excludes crimes committed by the perpetrator on their own vessel (e.g. theft), as well as privateering, which implies authorization by a state government. Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific crime under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal law of a number of states.
On Jan. 18, 2003, police came to the house when Sydney, then 17, called 911 crying for help with “an abuse thing.” She told officers she and her father “got into an argument over family ...
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has yet to explain why he resigned from a lucrative position with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, more than one month after he left his job as an ...