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Gravestone traditionally attributed to La Buse (Olivier Levasseur) in Saint-Paul, Réunion. Olivier Levasseur (1688, 1689, or 1690 – 7 July 1730), was a French pirate, nicknamed La Buse ("The Buzzard") or La Bouche ("The Mouth") in his early days for the speed and ruthlessness with which he always attacked his enemies as well as his ability to verbally attack his opponents.
A musketeer (French: mousquetaire [muskətɛʁ] ⓘ) was a type of soldier equipped with a musket. Musketeers were an important part of early modern warfare , particularly in Europe, as they normally comprised the majority of their infantry.
In 1658, he became a second lieutenant in the newly reformed Musketeers. This was a promotion, as the Musketeers were far more prestigious than the Gardes-Françaises. D'Artagnan was famous for his connection with the arrest of Nicolas Fouquet. Fouquet was Louis XIV's finance commissioner and aspired to take the place of Mazarin as the king's ...
Musketoons had a brass or iron barrel, and used a wheellock, flintlock or caplock [1] firing mechanism, like the typical musket of the period. They were fired from the shoulder like the musket, but the shorter length (barrels were as short as a foot (30 cm) long) made them easier to handle for those in restricted conditions, such as mounted infantry and naval boarding parties.
Santiago of the Seas is an American animated television series created by Niki Lopez, Leslie Valdes, and Valerie Walsh Valdes that aired on Nickelodeon from October 9, 2020 to January 13, 2023, and Nick Jr. from July 3 to July 27, 2023. [1]
Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) previously developed by Flying Lab Software and Portalus Games, and currently supported by Vision Online Games. The game is set in the Caribbean in an anachronistic 1720 and combines tactical ship battles and swashbuckling combat with a player-driven economy ...
As of 2017, Skull and Bones was marketed as a tactical action game set in an open world environment and played from a third-person perspective. [1] [2] Players take control of a minimally customizable pirate ship (which has a stamina bar; limiting movement speed), [3] [4] and may choose to sail the Indian Ocean on a single-player campaign, or gather up to five other players to ally in limited ...
The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Filipino, Australian, and Mexican campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II.