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| (...) It's kind like politics: to the English he was a national hero, to the Spanish he was a pirate. :-) Since he had direct or indirect sanction from Elizabeth ("Oooo, I'm sorry about that sea-dog Mister Spanish Ambassador, I'll punish him (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Mr L F Braun wrote in message ... (...) As I'm sure someone posted somewhere else (URL) Well, you pack up your weapons, gather your crew (press what you must), get yourself embarked on 'La Gloire', and get yourself down here! My navy would feel (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Ack, yes. I wrote on the Circumnavigation (1577-80) as a lowly undergraduate. ;) I've always wondered if Drake can be considered a true "buccaneer" or pyrate; he was operating under marque from Elizabeth, and was a privateer very much in the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Want to hear a mindblower? I didn't really start to read up on Carribean or pirate history until the mid-nineties. It wasn't until then that I read about Sir Francis Drake and the buccaneer raids on Panama. What's interesting about that? In (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) We be the Jerky Boyz 2 Pyrates. We be cool. (...) Under the Black Flag was good general overview of Pirates and their mythification. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson (there (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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