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To read of sea roving's various incarnations—piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course—is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic cliché. And what an image it is! But its truth is by halves,... read more
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SHORTLY BEFORE THE END OF JANUARY 1680, OLD STYLE, THERE lay near the town of Arica on the Chilean coast a galleon of 400 tons burthen named La Santissima Trinidad, captured from the Spanish.
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- Benerson Little (Author)
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