Kamis, 19 April 2018

Quelling a Pirate Revolt

In 1718, a former British privateer finally brought Blackbeard and his cronies to bay. After 15 years of war and not 10 months of peace, British authorities realized they had a problem on their hands in the spring of 1714: a failed state astride one of the most important sea-lanes in the New World. Embarrassingly, …

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