Название: The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic piracy in the early seventeenth century
Автор: Connie Kelleher
Издательство: Cork University Press
ISBN: 1782053654
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 534
Размер: 45,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privately-commissioned ships in 1603 by the new king of England, disenfranchised like-minded men of the sea, many who had been former ‘privateers’, merchant sailors and seamen and who had no recourse but to turn to plunder, joined forces with traditional pirates.