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The real heyday of piracy came in the XVII century. In remote seas, European governments did not have large flotillas, s...
11/01/2022

The real heyday of piracy came in the XVII century. In remote seas, European governments did not have large flotillas, so they hired pirates or simply provided them with privateer's certificates. The main center of piracy was the Caribbean Sea. There were many desert islands, which, despite the bans of the Spanish authorities, settled a lot of free immigrants from Europe. The settlers hunted game or grazed cattle, so they were called bukanira (ie "braziers" - "bukan" Indians called the grill on which they fried meat). Eventually, buccaneers and ordinary adventurers from the Old World began to gather in battalions that looted merchant ships - mostly Spanish. Over the decades, pirate forces gained such strength that they helped the British capture the islands of Jamaica (1655) and Tortuga.

The most famous of the "sharks" was Francis Drake. He attacked not only the ships of the Spaniards, but also their citie...
11/01/2022

The most famous of the "sharks" was Francis Drake. He attacked not only the ships of the Spaniards, but also their cities. And in 1577 he bypassed America from the south and suddenly attacked the ports on the Pacific coast. Drake's b***y was huge - a load of silver alone weighed 26 tons. Realizing that the Spaniards could expect him on the way back, the "shark" decided to return home across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and thus made the second trip around the world. The treasures brought by the researcher pirate were twice the income of the British Treasury for the year. King Philip II of Spain demanded that the audacious man be punished and the plunder returned, but Elizabeth I personally visited Drake's ship and gave him the title of knight.
The Great Armada, assembled by Philip II in 1588, was defeated by pirates in England and the Netherlands.

After the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru, Charles V forbade foreign merchants to visit the New World, American good...
11/01/2022

After the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru, Charles V forbade foreign merchants to visit the New World, American goods were allowed to buy only in Spanish Seville, paying duties to the imperial treasury. However, foreigners constantly violated this ban, although the smugglers were threatened with severe punishments. And the pirate attacks, most of them French, have turned into a real epidemic. The robbers not only seized ships with American silver, but also attacked coastal cities - even as large as Cartagena or Havana. To protect against pirate attacks, strong walls began to be built around the settlements. And the Spanish ships with cargo from the New World, the emperor ordered to collect in large flotillas, which later became known as "silver"

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