>look up a pirate
>it's actually a privateer
Were any pirates actually pirates?
>>473366
Yes.
>>473366
plenty actually senpai. blackbeard. calico jack. claas compaan.black sam bellamy idk those are just off the top of my head
Look into Exquemelin. He was an indentured servant who ended up in the ownership/employ(?) of I believe Henry Morgan, and he somehow got back to Europe and wrote a book about 17th century piracy and Caribbean colonial life as a whole.
There's some crazy stuff in there.
Buccaneers were all crack shots with muskets because they tended to blow their loot on ammo and booze. They'd pack into a quick, tiny boat, head for a merchant ship and pick everyone off they could from a distance and then rush aboard. Often somebody would drill a hole in the bottom of the boarding vessel so there would be no option but to take the other ship.
Upon taking a ship and its cargo, they'd head for a town and party it up, spending all their cash on booze, women and ammo until they were penniless and had to do it all over again.
>>475230
That's some OG operating right there. /k/ as fuck.
>>475230
that is fucking high level
>>475230
>governments used to be pussies enough for shit like that to happen
why are we living in the worst times
>>475255
There was a saying that went something like "there are no kings past [some longitude]"
Basically Europe didn't give a fuck so long as it got that colonial dish, they'd do little beyond send the odd warship whenever they got news of various colonists taking each other's islands.
My copy is at work, keep this thread up for an hour and I'll drop some gems on you.
>>475271
waiting for you anon, and an hour isn't enough to get a thread to 404 in this board anyway.
Bumping before transcribing just to be sure.
>>475398
Rock the Brazilian
>resettles to Jamaica after Portugal takes Brazil from the Dutch
>joins a buccaneer crew
>becomes popular enough to take a barque from the pirate groups (presumably they had a small fleet)
>capture a ship carrying money from New Spain, take it to Jamaica
Rock acquired great renown from this exploit, and in the end became so audacious he made all Jamaica tremble. He had no self control at all, but behaves as if possessed by a sullen fury. When he was drunk, he would roam the town like a madman. The first person he would come across, he would chop off his arm or leg, without anyone daring to intervene, for he was like a maniac. He perpetrated the greatest atrocities against the Spaniards. Some of them he tied or spitted on wooden stakes and roasted them alive between two fires, like killing a pig--all because they refused to show him the road to the hog-yards he wanted to plunder.
>>475446
Once he was cruising after prey along the coast of Campeche when his ship ran aground in a storm. He and his crew had to abandon ship and make for the shore, without being able to rescue anything but their muskets and some powder and shot. This occurred between Campeche and Triste. Straight away they hurried towards El Golfo Triste, where the rovers always put in to repair their ships. After three or four days they were worn out with hunger and thirst and the rough road, so that they could hardly go another step--but worst of all, they were observed by a party of a hundred Spanish cavalry who chanced to come that way.
Captain Rock urged his comrades on, saying he had no intention of giving himself up, but would rather die them be taken prisoner by the Spaniards. The rovers were thirty in number, all well armed, and as their captain had put good heart into them, resolved to die with him rather than surrender. Meanwhile, the Spaniards were riding violently down on them. The rovers let them approach until they could not miss their aim, and every bullet found its mark. The battle went on for an hour, when the surviving Spaniards took flight. The buccaneers killed the wounded Spaniards instantly, and took their horses and the food they had been carrying. They could now proceed on their way with ease, without having lost more than two of their mates killed, and two wounded.
>>475465
First edition of this was in 1678, a few decades before Nassau was really a thing.
François L'Olonnais
>shipped to the Caribbean as a slave from France
>works with hunters when his time is up
>takes to robbing Spaniards as a buccaneer
>Governor of Tortuga gives him a ship to go fuck with Spain (Franco-Spanish War at the time)
>commits 'unspeakable atrocities' against the Spaniards, getting loadsadosh but becoming infamous and hated by the Spanish
>ship capsizes on the coast of Campeche
>crew gets to shore
>Spanish attack
>kill most of the men
>L'Olonnais knew there would be no mercy for him either, and there was no chance of escape, as he was already wounded. He smeared himself with blood and crept under the corpses lying on the beach. When the enemy had left the battlefield, he withdrew to the forest to think out how best to save his life.
>binds wounds, finds some Spanish clothes, goes to the city of Campeche
>talks to some slaves, promises freedom if they follow his advice
>they steal a canoe and sail for Tortuga
>meanwhile the Spanish, hearing from the prisoners taken from the ship, hear that l'Olonnais is dead
>light bonfires to celebrate, they hate the guy so much
>L'Olonnais arrives in Tortuga, promptly finagles himself a boat and 20 armed men
>starts off to plunder once more, but some fishermen see them
>run to Havana screaming that l'Olonnais is out and about
>governor doesn't believe him, but orders a ten gun ship with 90 well armed men to go a-pirate hunting
>some captured fishermen inform l'Olonnais of this
>pirates resolve to go a-pirate hunter hunting
>find the ship
>Spaniards ask l'Olonnais if he's seen l'Olonnais
>"No, he heard about you and fled like a bitch"
>Cool
>l'Olonnais has two canoes full of guys at this point
>They wait until the morning, put a canoe on either side of the warship and start firing
>after a couple panicked salvoes from the Spanish ship, all the buccaneers board at once
>chase Spaniards below deck
>kill every Spaniard but one, who is given a letter to the governor of Havana telling him to suck a dick
>>475595
Zoro?
what about that dutch guy who raided iceland with ottoman pirates, that was random as fuck
>>475604
The One Piece character or the black-masked Californian?
Is One Piece worth getting into?
>>473366
Yes, but they usually didn't last long when the big boys started coming after the independent ones in the early 1700s.
But if you didn't go out of your way to fuck shit up too much or make a big name for yourself they sometimes didn't care enough to find you.
>>475644
yes
no
A nice book on the subject.
>>475446
I always wonder why anyone would hang around guys like that.
>>476422
Because he got results. Buccaneers were bros, so it's almost certain he was fucking up the townspeople and not his crew.
Still, it's some crazy shit. Exquemelin also references a guy who set up a table in the middle of town, and offered a shot of booze to anyone walking past. If they refused, he'd pull out a pistol and gun them down on the spot. Same guy apparently liked to run around throwing butter at people as well.
>>473366
You should look up East Asian pirates. Way crazier than Caribbean Ones.
They were rarely 1-5 ship affairs, as pirates there were usually.
>Disenfranchised Samurai and their retainers.
>Literal Floating Warlords.
>During the fall of the Ming: rogue Chinese admirals taking their ships and going roving.
>One incidence of a pirate kingdom: the Kingdom of Tungning, founded by Koxinga in Taiwan.
They were often hundreds of ship affairs.
One fishing family- the Murakami- in Japan actually rose to nobility during the Sengoku Period as they set up an unofficial toll booth in the Inland Sea of the Japanese Islands: robbing merchants as they go. The weakass Ashikaga Shogunate "solved" the problem by enfeofing the family; making the family part of the noble class.
how come we rarely hear anything about the pirates in malay straits? they were one of the oldest and most long lasting pirates in the world. i remember reading some news last month about pirates attacking cargo ships or something there.
>>476568
I watched a docu on modern piracy back when Histo Channel was still a bit sane. The reason for it is that serious piracy is unreported in the media because it scares the fuck out of shipping companies.
Also, Southeast Asian pirates are scary. They make Somalians look like babies.
IMO Somalians are the stupidest pirates to have ever been to sea.
Read up on Thomas Tew and the Pirate Round.
Merchant from New England going broke. Decides to crew up and go a' pirating in the Indian ocean.
Raid, capture and take hostage the Maharaja of India on his way to mecca. Succeeds and becomes fabulously rich. If I remember right, each crewmans share of the loot was 1,600 POUNDS of silver each.
Epic story.
>>476586
How prevalent is it nowadays?
t. Someone with notions of joining the merchant marines
>>476616
Depends on where you are.
Like the other anon said South East Asia, Indian Ocean, and the east coast of Africa are pretty fucking dangerous places to be.
I also hear you can get into trouble with the cartels around central and south America but the US coast guard keeps them in check around the gulf.
>>476616
Very. This is because Southeast Asia is home to like shitloads of Islands were almost anyone can disappear to and small time navies that rarely go out and patrol their yard.
Furthermore Southeast Asian pirates are quite smart in their attacks.
I mean, look at fucking Somalians.
>Hai guize, we pirades :DDDDD
>We board your ship at daylight.
>Take over ship. Crew hostages now
>Yey we surrounded by authorities :DDDDD
Southeast Asians.
>Attack at night, firing all guns blazing without warning. RPGs and even onboard mortars are fired.
>Board and kill some of your crew just for fear factor. Take the rest hostage/VIP passengers for kidnapping/grills for white slavery.
>Steal anything valuable inside. Break open containers that are accessible.
>Fucking leave ship.
Or in the case of Cruise Ships.
>Follow ship for days. See where it ports in SEA.
>Tie up in the same dock as that ship.
>Gidnap some white/asian tourist by bribing staff in local bars/whorehouses
>Leave port.
>Post ransom video/letter.
>>477031
Don't forget, many of the pirates from there are hungry, desperate peasants.
The pirates of the Caribbeans were just assholes looking for a good time and easy money.
>>477089
Well, its a mix of poor Southeast Asians and Islamic "Fundamentalists."
I say that with a hyphen because SEAsian Muslims are so chill, their Fundies are too life-loving to blow themselves up. Islamic Terrorists Groups there rarely go suicide bomber and more into piracy, drugs, extortion, protection scheming, and smuggling.
>>477127
with quotation marks*
>>477089
And it was always hilarious how some of them ended up actually running shit in spite of everything they did.
>be Caribbean pirate
>be pirate captain
>plunder 19 ships
>sack three cities
>literally murder an english admiral in the streets, in plain view of everybody
>get letter
>i've been appointed governor of the bahamas
>mfw
>>477138
Well the Brits needed all the help they could get to fuck over Spain.
Any help was welcome, even retarded ass self-destructive help.
>>476536
>Same guy apparently liked to run around throwing butter at people as well
Holy fuck
>>475446
>after Portugal takes Brazil from the Dutch
But that is not right at all
>>478291
That's what it says, man.
>>478291
Brazil went back and forth a couple times between Portugal and Holland iirc
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