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| Date: | 5/19/2013 8:34:31 PM |
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G'day to ye, fellow pirates, buccaneers, & scalley-wags! Sam hopes you'll join us for more piracy on the seven seas!
During the 16th & 17th centuries, there was frequent European piracy against Mughal Indian merchants, especially those en route to Mecca for Hajj. Things became really bad, when Portuguese attacked & captured the vessel Rahimi which belonged to Mariam Zamani the Mughal queen. This led to the Mughal seizure of the Portuguese town Daman. In the 18th century, the famous Maratha privateer Kanhoji Angre ruled the seas between Mumbai and Goa. The Marathas attacked British shipping & insisted that East India Company ships pay taxes if sailing through their waters.
At one stage, the pirate population of Madagascar numbered close to 1000 Île Sainte-Marie became a popular base for pirates throughout the 17th & 18th centuries. The most famous pirate utopia is that of the probably fictional Captain Misson and his pirate crew, who allegedly founded the free colony of Libertatia in northern Madagascar in the late 17th century, until it was destroyed in a surprise attack by the island natives in 1694.
The southern coast of the Persian Gulf became known as the Pirate Coast as raiders based there harassed foreign shipping. Early British expeditions to protect the Indian Ocean trade from raiders at Ras al-Khaimah led to campaigns against that headquarters & other harbours along the coast in 1819. Captain Kidd captured many vessels of the Mughal King.
And so's the pirates through the years became even more plentiful and exceptionally devious! No man, woman, child or the elderly were safe not only on the seas but also the coastal towns & villages and rivers of the world. If there be a coin to steal a pirate made it his mission to find it.
I'll be takin' ye vote now! That's good! Here, share my rum with me then we'll play a new hand of poker! |
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