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republicofpirates.net
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| | | | | Government-sanctioned pirates, commonly known as privateers, played a crucial role in naval warfare and economic strategy during the Age of Sail. Privateering was essentially a legalized form of piracy, authorized by governments through the issuance of letters of marque. These letters granted private ship owners permission to attack enemy vessels and seize their cargo, with [...] | |
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benersonlittle.com
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| | | | | Boston in 1694, by Cyprian Southack, legendary Massachusetts privateer during King William's War and Queen Anne's War. In the former he commanded the Mary and Province Galley privateers, and in the latter the old and new Province Galley. (Leventhal Map and Education Center.) In recognition of the Thanksgiving Holiday, a few words from fictional... | |
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www.amusingplanet.com
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katemacdonald.net
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| | | This history of the first feminist movement in the UK is terrific. The Bluestockings were an informal group of eighteenth-century middle- and upper-class women of talent, distinction, wit and intellectual brilliance. They claimed the name for their group as a badge of honour, for their informality and focus on intelligent conversation rather than behaving as... | ||
