Thank you, I had to look it up. It does appear there were Xebecs with as many as 32 guns, and there were even fully square-rigged "xebec-frigates" used by European nations. I am simply not as...
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Thank you, I had to look it up. It does appear...
Thank you, I had to look it up. It does appear there were Xebecs with as many as 32 guns, and there were even fully square-rigged "xebec-frigates" used by European nations. I am simply not as...
Historically speaking, pirates rarely actually...
Historically speaking, pirates rarely actually fought for a prize if it wasn't escorted. Merchantmen in the early to mid 1700s and later often had very little more than 20 sailors aboard. When a...
The Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, with...
The Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, with the likes of Ed Thatch (Blackbeard), Charles Vane, and "Black Bart" Roberts (although he was mostly off Africa) "ended" within a few years of 1720. By...