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Peter Earle

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

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The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates’ greatest scourge, not just in English waters but throughout the world.

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The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, ‘being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless’. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice.

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This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.

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Quotes by Peter Earle

Peter Earle

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates’ greatest scourge, not just in English waters but throughout the world.

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.

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