| She remembered her father telling her tales of pirates marooning their captains and awful things of that sort. |
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| The three musicians began their instruments, playing a cheerful and happy tune that sent the pirates toe tapping and hand clapping. |
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| With their destroyer obliterated the pirates fled in all directions and then regrouped back together to resume their attack. |
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| Trying her best not to stare at the small groups of dirty pirates huddled together on the deck, Pearl followed closely behind Wesley. |
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| Ships of our navy have had occasional run-ins with pirates and marauders, but war for us is like the vaguest memory. |
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| Authorities are following up on the report and have yet to determine if the abductors are pirates or terrorists. |
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| They walked me over to the deeper end of the pool like pirates making their prisoner walk the plank. |
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| At some time near the Algerian coast Barbary pirates boarded the ship and its good officers and men walked the plank. |
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| Most pirates of British origin would thus have had this distinctive accent. |
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| Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of ships and pirates has been a huge success in the guises of film and television adaptations. |
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| For gentler fun there's now a Jolly Roger family boat ride in the Pirate Cove, where captains and young pirates can jump aboard together. |
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| The third, a naval journal or logbook from 1853-1854, reveals clashes with pirates in the Far East at the height of British imperial power. |
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| The Papal State, too, was subjected to Ottoman raids particularly on its Adriatic coast, and Genoese ships likewise feared the Ottoman pirates. |
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| So some pirates now take hostages instead of ships or cargo, and ransom them for tens of thousands of dollars. |
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| The research vessel, a century-old 60-foot gaff-rigged ketch, looks more like it belongs to Barbary pirates than to contemporary scientists. |
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| For those of us in the UK, it was Radio Luxembourg, early Radio One or the pirates of the 1960s that first kindled our love of the wireless. |
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| The hostages and stolen cargo were recovered, and the surviving pirates put into custody. |
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| The frigates easily outgunned the pirates but had trouble blockading their swift, shore-hugging xebecs. |
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| Many embraced Mohammedonism to escape slavery and at least some joined the xebecs, the swift three masted boats used by the pirates. |
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| The Caribbean was a nest of pirates until cleaned up in the eighteenth century. |
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| There's child abduction, Malay pirates and the last hurrah of British imperialism in South-east Asia. |
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| What gets up our noses is the brass-bound arrogance and hubris of the pirates who now run your system. |
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| A fleet was built up to shepherd merchant ships to and fro across the Atlantic and protect them from pirates, and the Casa ran its own navy yard. |
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| The tugboat, carrying eight Japanese and six Filipino crew members, was attacked by armed pirates. |
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| Rys's father, William Rose, had been one of the best and most feared pirates on every sea. |
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| We are originally from Wales, you see, but we came from England and were sailing to Venezuela when pirates attacked our ship. |
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| In the past three weeks, pirates have also attacked another tug and an oil tanker in the same region. |
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| The English assembled into a circle with the armed pirates surrounding them. |
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| Sikh soldiers and British forces were deployed when rebels and pirates attacked colonial interests. |
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| Bait and BSA formed a workgroup for reaching consent on the procedures and the police checks of suspected software pirates. |
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| Why should downloaders, freeloaders, pirates and copyright felons be entitled to the protection of the law? |
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| There was no discussion of the immorality of the criminals who pirate the movies or buy from the pirates. |
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| Some become music pirates just to do something illegal, something different. |
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| A gang of four suspected software pirates were arrested in a raid by FBI agents in Los Angeles last week. |
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| The record companies saw them as free-loading pirates who were stealing copyrighted songs. |
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| He rightly points out that China is only paying lip service to cracking down on counterfeiters and copyright pirates. |
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| I now have the chance to broadcast from a ship in the way those radio pirates did! |
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| In Victorian England more calculating intelligences are at work, which ultimately prove fatal for the pirates. |
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| For many years this was a dangerous frontier land, where pirates roved and merchantmen ventured at their peril. |
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| Ever since wooden ships were felled by storms at sea or robbed by pirates, successful businesses risked coming to grief crossing oceans. |
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| Those pirates, armed with daggers and machetes, also used commando-style tactics in their attack, he said. |
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| It ends with Cusack throwing grenades and firing a machine gun to save her from pirates. |
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| In July it reported three attempted boardings in less than a week, with pirates firing automatic weapons at two gas tankers and an oil tanker. |
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| This location afforded a natural fortress to protect it from roving marauders and pirates in search of valuable goods. |
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| For instance, the pirates are not the bloodthirsty savages characterized by most films in this genre. |
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| They also sought to tap into public discourse about hackers as copyright pirates, criminals, and spreaders of computer viruses. |
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| In Classical Antiquity, the Tyrrhenians and Thracians were known as pirates. |
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| Although pirates would search the ship's cabins for gold and silver, the main loot consisted of cargo such as grain, molasses, and kegs of rum. |
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| The ship was once again bustling with busy pirates moving and taking whatever they could. |
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| She remembered the war, which was thrust upon her father, King Dahir, just because some pirates had hijacked a ship belonging to the Caliph. |
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| Unless he was in an oubliette, the pirates would undoubtedly come for him, and that, surprisingly enough, was a bit of something to hope for. |
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| He was still firing at the control booth, blasting bigger holes in it than the pirates themselves had managed. |
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| Company ships armed to fight pirates also defeated trading rivals and monopolized foreign trade. |
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| The pirates had found him cowering in a supply locker, and had trussed him up and hauled him in there. |
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| The pirates seize the vessel and use it to attack a shoreside target, descending upon their target from the air. |
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| I had never felt this naked, even when the pirates had stripped me for my cleaning earlier that very day. |
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| Some governments gave pirates and privateers safe harbor to earn revenues or to harass their enemies. |
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| The pirates also placed false registration papers on board and created false bills of lading for the cargo. |
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| Not long into the voyage, the ship is attacked by a peculiarly pacifistic band of pirates, who take the children on board their ship. |
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| This allowed pirates for the first time to reproduce what was for all intents and purposes an exact copy of an original. |
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| Today's pirates are slick professional operations filling Britain's airwaves with everything from street music to extreme political messages. |
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| Why didn't you work together with the other pirates and just split the booty? |
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| The Phantom's origins began in the late 1500's when a merchant vessel was attacked by Singh pirates in the Bay of Bengalla. |
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| Large merchant vessels have to slow down, making it easier for pirates to pursue their prey. |
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| The merchant ship's hold had been emptied, and according to the crew some of their shipmates had been shanghaied by the pirates. |
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| For younger visitors, swashbuckling pirates will be hand to entertain, along with magicians, face paintings, musicians and much more. |
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| These unpopulated regions had been a haven for pirates, slavers, and other scoundrels for centuries. |
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| Rapidly, the pirates spread through the ship, securing the bridge, and engineering. |
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| It has become the latest chip maker to stamp its wares with a holographic stamp in a bid to beat processor pirates. |
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| They were used for general escort duties, protecting their charges from pirates and other threats. |
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| It is said the collection of pirates included Spaniards, French, Bretons and Irish. |
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| I was really the first one to befriend her, and protected her from the other pirates. |
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| The commotion on the two ships' decks was incredible as pirates streamed onto the merchantmen and sailors streamed onto the Emerald Lady. |
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| Most of the pirates were on the merchant ship, and the good merchant sailors were greatly outnumbered. |
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| This week we return to the Yorkshire coast for an altogether more swashbuckling tale of pirates on the high seas. |
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| Anti Vampire Club membership ranges from pirates to hermitic recluses to your common garden-variety psychopath. |
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| There are more ocean-going vessels bearing such goods than one might imagine, nearly all holding insurance premiums against pirates. |
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| She placed her hand on the pirates shoulder and recalled the words to the prayer her brothers always said before going to sea. |
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| Hamlet's lucky rescue by pirates opens up moral and legal perspectives beyond sovereignty and civil society. |
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| It snowballed from pirates and urban stations to the mainstream shows it's getting played on now. |
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| Visitors can learn about the pirates of the area, the Martello towers and more current information on fishing in the area. |
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| Jolo, about 600 miles south of Manila, is a refuge for armed gangs, bandits and pirates. |
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| The '80s pirate renaissance also demonstrated that pirates love nothing more than a boisterous sea chantey. |
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| Merchants, mercenaries, pirates, blockade runners, and all sorts of travelers come through Nerlack Lunar Base daily, slipping unnoticed onboard a ship will not be difficult. |
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| In light of this linguistic shift from pirates and hackers to users and consumers, the name-calling can be seen as serving a very specific and insidious function. |
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| Before the arrests, the Italian navy had defended the men, lauding them for warding off pirates and protecting the Italian vessel. |
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| Such vehicles help the Coast Guard handle hostage situations at sea and take on pirates, poachers of marine wealth, smugglers and anti-national elements, an official said. |
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| Nor, on a quick skim, are the rest of the book's pirates notably rhotic. |
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| The pirates instantly began winching the cable in with a capstan. |
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| This area of tropical rain forest in north-western Borneo, lying along the mangrove coast of the South China Sea, was infested with pirates, slavers and head-hunters. |
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| It is themed around the antics of a group of infamous pirates. |
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| As the strait shares a border with Malaysia, Malaysian authorities have stepped up patrols and had captured two groups of pirates operating along the straits. |
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| Then, having taken in wood and water and tallowed the ship, the pirates stood across for the coast of Guinea with a pilot picked up at St. Thomas. |
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| The pirates attacked us with everything they had, which was significantly more than we did, and we were hard pressed to even stay afloat in the water. |
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| Many boats ran into trouble with the Thai pirates who prowled the South China Sea at that time. |
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| These men are modern-day pirates, bringing terror to the high seas. |
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| If they throw us a crumb, it's like pirates who have sunk your ship, murdered your family, and burned your village giving you a lifeboat to sail away on. |
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| Oceanic navigation was with some exceptions forbidden, out of a not unreasonable conviction that all blue-water sailors in these days were potential pirates. |
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| Tuesday, the pirates launched a rocket-propelled grenade at the American destroyer that was shadowing the distressed Quest. |
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| One of them, the Ronald Reagan, is reportedly in the Arabian Sea, but it is not there to battle pirates. |
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| The others are locked in the safe room, and Phillips is determined to keep them away from the pirates. |
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| Savannah's port-city origins incorporate an early population of colonists, slaves, voodooists, sailors, traders and pirates with unique social and religious beliefs. |
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| Few pirates were in there, snoozing deeply in their bunks or hammocks. |
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| We'd celebrate our new trading status with cheap rum and boozy shindy dancing and the pirates would engage in swashbuckling sword fights over who gets first Arrgghs! |
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| Thousands perished en route to safer shores or fell prey to marauding pirates. |
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| The practice is so lucrative, and so weakly policed, that there is little incentive for the pirates to stop. |
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| Quoyle learns about his ancestors, who were pirates and wreckers, gets a job as a reporter on the local rag and meets Wavey Prowse who teaches the children at the school. |
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| Most at risk are oil industry vessels working in the coastal swamps west of the port of Warri, where in April two US oilmen were gunned down by pirates. |
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| But immediately after, another group of pirates attacked the same ship. |
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| Then together we will be the most fearsome pirates on the sea. |
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| In the special, Workman plays the old man who, as a cabin boy, watched the pirates bury their treasure. |
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| Surely there will be villainous pirates, distracting mermaids, tides change in the new open water chapter of my journey. |
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| New studies are out showing that while the pirates of old certainly were not nice guys, they did have a code of ethics that puts today's corporate buccaneers to shame. |
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| Music internet pirates, Craig reminds us, are devious little monkeys. |
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| It's to this land, where boys fly, fairies interfere and pirates walk the plank, that Wendy, played by a newcomer, and her two brothers are drawn. |
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| After an incredibly suspenseful standoff, the marksmen take out the pirates in the lifeboat, saving Phillips. |
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| With that, the duo of pirates retired to the stern of the boat. |
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| These pirates or buccaneers were part of the French fleet as Curacao would have been a rich prize for these pirates who were always on the lookout for rich pickings. |
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| Software pirates are criminals and deserve to be treated as such. |
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| When Cal overhears his father plotting, he feels like Jim Hawkins eavesdropping on John Silver and the pirates planning mutiny. |
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| We have seen industry wallahs taking of cracking down on pirates. |
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| They might be pirates, they might be reprobates, they might have picked the pockets of poor bluesmen and ignorant English kids, but at least they were dedicated to music. |
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| In a recent example of unprecedented barbarism, pirates severed the hand of a Taiwanese fishing captain as a negotiation tactic. |
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| In a time obsessed with figures and analyses he slashes away upon the field like an old-fashioned swashbuckler tackling pirates in some seafaring epic. |
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| At that time there was persistent lawlessness, there were bandits, pirates, non-existent communications, areas of dense population, others of none. |
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| Having their own navy the Hansa were able to sweep the Baltic Sea free of pirates. |
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| Nevertheless, in 859, Danish pirates sailed through Gibraltar and raided the little Moroccan state of Nekor. |
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| The region was also a place of operations for Varangians, eastern Scandinavian adventurers, merchants, and pirates. |
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| In particular, the lack of help in defense led to constant raids by marauding pirates along the Icelandic coasts. |
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| In 1000, Pietro II Orseolo sent a fleet of 6 ships to defeat the Narentine pirates from Dalmatia. |
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| During the confrontation, 5000 pirates were killed, ten pirate ships were destroyed by fire, and seven pirate ships were captured. |
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| He ruthlessly suppressed pirates who had long plagued Chinese and southeast Asian waters. |
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| In the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attack by the Barbary pirates. |
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| In 1341, he participated in an attack on Ceuta, considered a nest of Moroccan pirates who regularly attacked the coasts of Algarve. |
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| The Portuguese Navy was still involved in several other conflicts and maintained an important role in the fight against pirates. |
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| The Barbary pirates continued to capture slaves from Europe and, to an extent, North America, from the 16th to 19th centuries. |
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| The Doc Savage novel The Sargasso Ogre, published in 1933, takes place in the Sargasso where descendants of Elizabethan pirates still live. |
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| In 1606, the government of Philip III ordered all inhabitants of Hispaniola to move close to Santo Domingo, to avoid interaction with pirates. |
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| As a gateway to the Caribbean, Hispaniola became a haven for pirates during the early colonial period. |
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| Its speed, maneuverability and ease of handling made it a favourite of Mediterranean pirates. |
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| The exact route was kept secret to protect the Spanish trade monopoly against competing powers, and to avoid Dutch and English pirates. |
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| Some isolated attacks on these shipments took place in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea by British and Dutch pirates and privateers. |
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| This made the port a highly prized target for pirates during the colonial period, with attacks and sackings frequent. |
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| These examples of medieval Spanish fortifications were built to defend the city from attacks by pirates and privateers. |
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| On the way, French pirates captured the ship and the passengers were set upon the shore at Alentejo. |
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| The ships then sailed east to Madura, but were attacked by pirates on the way. |
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| Galicia also suffered occasional slave raids by Barbary pirates, but not as frequently as the Mediterranean coastal areas. |
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| When pirates sacked Vieste in southern Italy in 1554 they took an estimated 7,000 slaves. |
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| Barbary pirates frequently attacked the Balearic islands, resulting in many coastal watchtowers and fortified churches being erected. |
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| With the pirates installed in Port Royal, the Spanish would be deterred from attacking. |
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| At the very least English and French privateers and pirates did visit there, taking in water and food. |
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| The Walkers consider themselves explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves to be pirates. |
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| Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates. |
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| We fought our first foreign war in Algiers to defeat the Barbary pirates. |
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| They have even considered the risk of air pirates attacking this week's Labour Party conference in Brighton. |
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| Make our government safe for the wiretappers, environmental rapists, corporate looters and petroleum pirates. |
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| However, pirates did employ the brutal act of keelhauling as punishment for mutinous crew members. |
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| Legend has it that the island was occupied by a race of pirates whose god-chief was Balor of the Evil Eve. |
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| A BRITISH cargo ship was hijacked by Somalian pirates using two small rowing boats yesterday. |
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| But in September the company reacted to a Russian crackdown on Microsoft pirates by sending the alleged scofflaws free software. |
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| The strategy holds great promise to improve the business environment for manga producers and former pirates. |
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| Businesses and governments alike have been hiring firms with names like Seawolf Marine Patrol to raise the cost of doing business for pirates. |
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| Ibn Battuta's ship almost sank on embarking from Sri Lanka, only for the vessel that came to his rescue to suffer an attack by pirates. |
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| The largest tribe is the 60,000-member Bajau. The Bajaus were once sea nomads and pirates. |
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| The northern pirates were now swarming on every sea, and the coasts of Britain, Gaul, and Germany were all alike desolated by their harryings. |
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| The islands appear to have been raided frequently by Barbary pirates to enslave residents to support the Barbary slave trade. |
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| The Mediterranean had at this time fallen into the hands of pirates, largely from Cilicia. |
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| The pirates not only strangled shipping lanes but also plundered many cities on the coasts of Greece and Asia. |
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| Pompey was nominated as commander of a special naval task force to campaign against the pirates. |
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| According to the Confession of Saint Patrick, at the age of sixteen Patrick was captured by a group of Irish pirates. |
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| Godwine and his second son Harold kept the peace off the Sussex coast by using Bosham and Pevensey to drive away pirates. |
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| Throughout this period, England confronted repeated raids by pirates that heavily damaged trade and the navy. |
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| The French responded in kind and French pirates, under Scottish protection, raided many English coastal towns. |
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| The Royal Navy was also involved in an incident involving Somali pirates in November 2008, after the pirates tried to capture a civilian vessel. |
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| The Pirates of the Caribbean series of films also includes the Navy as the force pursuing the eponymous pirates. |
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| These pirates, which are called wichingi by their own people, and Ascomanni by our own people, pay tribute to the Danish king. |
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| Cornish pirates exploited both their knowledge of the Cornish coastline as well as its sheltered creeks and hidden anchorages. |
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| For many fishing villages, loot and contraband provided by pirates supported a strong and secretive underground economy in Cornwall. |
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| Let's build a fort out of chairs and blankets and make believe we are pirates. |
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| The introduction of castles to Denmark was a reaction to attacks from Wendish pirates, and they were usually intended as coastal defences. |
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| These pirates often plagued early English and Dutch trading ships of the British East India Company and Dutch East India Company. |
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| He formed an alliance of pirates and blockaded the port of Charles Town, South Carolina. |
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| She was stopped and her captain, David Harriot, invited to join the pirates. |
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| Four pirates had testified that with Teach, they had visited Knight's home to give him presents. |
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| It is not until late in the play, after his experience with the pirates, that Hamlet is able to articulate his feelings freely. |
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| The pirates grabbed their bottles, and as they drank they began to sing and laugh and shout at each other. |
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| More fantastical theories, including the possibility of pirates mistaking the boat for Byron's, also circulated. |
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| In 1390 Genoa initiated a crusade against the Barbary pirates with help from the French and laid siege to Mahdia. |
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| Also, a number of nations have used their naval forces to protect private ships from pirate attacks and pursue pirates. |
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| In classical antiquity, the Phoenicians, Illyrians and Tyrrhenians were known as pirates. |
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| In 264, the Goths reached Galatia and Cappadocia, and Gothic pirates landed on Cyprus and Crete. |
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| In the Roman province of Britannia, Saint Patrick was captured and enslaved by Irish pirates. |
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| The lack of centralized powers all over Europe during the Middle Ages enabled pirates to attack ships and coastal areas all over the continent. |
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| From 824 to 961 Arab pirates in the Emirate of Crete raided the entire Mediterranean. |
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| In the 14th century, raids by Moor pirates forced the Venetian Duke of Crete to ask Venice to keep its fleet on constant guard. |
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| In 937, Irish pirates sided with the Scots, Vikings, Picts, and Welsh in their invasion of England. |
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| In the 13th and 14th century, pirates threatened the Hanseatic routes and nearly brought sea trade to the brink of extinction. |
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| Until about 1440, maritime trade in both the North Sea and the Baltic Sea was seriously in danger of attack by the pirates. |
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| The ushkuiniks were Novgorodian pirates who looted the cities on the Volga and Kama Rivers in the 14th century. |
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| The main victims of Maniot pirates were the Ottomans but the Maniots also targeted ships of European countries. |
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| Using oared vessels to combat pirates was common, and was even practiced by the major powers in the Caribbean. |
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| This trade was subjected to frequent raids by thriving bands of pirates based in the coastal cities of Western India. |
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| In the 1840s and 1850s, United States Navy and Royal Navy forces campaigned together against Chinese pirates. |
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| However, some British and American individual citizens also volunteered to serve with Chinese pirates to fight against European forces. |
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| The British offered rewards for the capture of westerners serving with Chinese pirates. |
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| A new phase of piracy began in the 1690s as English pirates began to look beyond the Caribbean for treasure. |
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| In 1715, pirates launched a major raid on Spanish divers trying to recover gold from a sunken treasure galleon near Florida. |
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| Until the arrival of governor Woodes Rogers three years later, Nassau would be home for these pirates and their many recruits. |
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| Among the most infamous Caribbean pirates of the time, was Edward Teach or Blackbeard, Calico Jack Rackham and Bartholomew Roberts. |
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| The most successful pirates of the era were Jean Lafitte and Roberto Cofresi. |
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| The United States Navy repeatedly engaged pirates in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean. |
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| By the 1830s, ships had begun to convert to steam propulsion, so the Age of Sail and the classical idea of pirates in the Caribbean ended. |
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| However, pirates were more egalitarian than any other area of employment at the time. |
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| Jewels were common plunder but not popular as they were hard to sell, and pirates, unlike the public of today, had little concept of their value. |
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| Having their own navy, the Hansa were able to sweep the Baltic Sea free of pirates. |
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| While piracy was predominantly a male occupation throughout history, a minority of pirates were female. |
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| Female pirates, like other women in crime, faced gender and discrimination issues in both practicing this occupation and being punished for it. |
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| Because of the resistance to allowing women on board, many female pirates did not identify themselves as such. |
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| Modern pirates favor small boats and taking advantage of the small number of crew members on modern cargo vessels. |
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| Modern pirates can be successful because a large amount of international commerce occurs via shipping. |
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| Also, pirates often operate in regions of developing or struggling countries with smaller navies and large trade routes. |
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| In Finland, one case involved pirates who had been captured and whose boat was sunk. |
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| As the pirates attacked a vessel of Singapore, not Finland, and are not themselves EU or Finnish citizens, they were not prosecuted. |
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| Warships that capture pirates have no jurisdiction to try them, and NATO does not have a detention policy in place. |
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| In practice, instances of summary justice and annulment of oaths and contracts involving pirates do not appear to have been common. |
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| Because of universal jurisdiction, action can be taken against pirates without objection from the flag state of the pirate vessel. |
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| The classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Pirates of Penzance focuses on The Pirate King and his hopeless band of pirates. |
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| Some crews were made up of professional merchant seamen, others of pirates, debtors, and convicts. |
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| Some privateers ended up becoming pirates, not just in the eyes of their enemies but also of their own nations. |
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| Another of its duties was the protection of the crucial maritime trade routes against the threat of pirates. |
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| In the 4th century, western ports suffered from attacks by Irish pirates, particularly Cardiff, Caernarfon, Holyhead and Caerhun. |
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| From the turn of the 3rd and 4th centuries, Frankish and Saxon pirates made mischief in the southeast of Britain. |
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| Augustine, founded in 1565 but repeatedly attacked and burned by pirates, privateers, and English forces. |
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| During the 3rd century AD, the region was attacked several times by Franks, Alamanni and pirates. |
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| In 1406, English pirates captured the future James I of Scotland off the coast of Flamborough Head as he was going to France. |
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| Dionysus was once captured by Etruscan pirates who mistook him for a wealthy prince they could ransom. |
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| The cliff opened up and left a fissure just big enough for him to hide in until the pirates left. |
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| But pirates who heard the sound left St Govan desolate when they stole the bell. |
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| From 1360 the threat came from the south, from North Africa to Maghreb, mainly to Barbary pirates and corsairs of Barbary Coast. |
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| For centuries, the Balearic sailors and pirates had been masters of the western Mediterranean. |
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| In 1618 the Barbary pirates attacked Lanzarote and La Gomera taking 1000 captives to be sold as slaves. |
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| The population continued to grow, and the pirates looked further and further beyond the borders of the Baltic, and eventually into all of Europe. |
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| The effectiveness of these tactics earned Vikings a formidable reputation as raiders and pirates. |
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| In 1428 the city was plundered by German pirates, and in 1455, Hanseatic merchants were responsible for burning down Munkeliv Abbey. |
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| On the way across the Aegean Sea, Caesar was kidnapped by pirates and held prisoner. |
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| After the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and imprisoned them. |
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| Without any significant maritime enemies, the Roman navy was reduced mostly to patrolling for pirates and transportation duties. |
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| Others say that ships routinely carried bands of soldiers to keep pirates at bay. |
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| During his maritime missions, on several occasions Zheng's fleet came into conflict with pirates. |
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| The earliest naval trawler, xebec and windward ships were employed by the Barbary pirates from the 16th century. |
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| By the French Revolutionary Wars of the late 18th century, effective naval convoy tactics had been developed to ward off pirates and privateers. |
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| The historical galley was propelled by freemen or citizens in ancient times, and by slaves captured by pirates in more recent times. |
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| More than 1 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries. |
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| Cossacks were warriors organized into military communities, resembling pirates and pioneers of the New World. |
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| According to Olaus, the boats were captured from Greenland pirates by one of the Haakons, which would place the event in the 14th century. |
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| The Barbary pirates had long attacked English and other European shipping along the North Coast of Africa. |
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| However, those countries' commercial interests benefited by the pirates continuing attacks on their competitors. |
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| But while praying, they were imprisoned by the governor of the island, ostensibly on suspicion of being pirates. |
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| Colonists often faced the threat of attacks from neighboring colonies, as well as from indigenous tribes and pirates. |
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| Golden Age pirates roamed off the coast of North America, Africa and the Caribbean. |
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| The pirates of the early eighteenth century, however, were men who acted on their own apart from official political sanction. |
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| Pirate havens such as the Bahamian Islands began to attract pirates by the hundreds because no government existed. |
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| A vast majority of pirates also came from the crews of captured merchant vessels. |
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| According to Gilje and data collected at the time of the American Revolution, the ages of pirates ranged from fourteen to fifty years old. |
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| The most pronounced tool pirates had at their disposal when confronting a potential prize was to employ the Jolly Roger. |
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| Because pirates were outlaw sailors, that does not mean they did not have their own form of government aboard their ships. |
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| There is evidence pirates specifically hoped to find edibles in their loot over specie. |
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| Mather believed that his prayers were answered when six pirates were captured and taken prisoner. |
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| During the seventeenth century, after Jamaica had become a haven for pirates. |
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| This combination of laws and naval efforts was responsible for thousands of deaths of pirates and alleged pirates. |
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| Two well known naval actions against pirates are the successful destructions of Edward Teach, or Blackbeard, and Bartholomew Roberts. |
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| A death sentence could be carried out on captured pirates at sea without benefit of trial, according to the statute. |
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| Even less frequently, ships could be overtaken by pirates or from a mutiny within the crew. |
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| The story of pirate William Fly, who was executed on July 12, 1726 in Boston, illustrates how arrogantly many pirates viewed death. |
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| Pairs of pirates would at times make oaths to one another that in order to insure that neither were captured they would shoot each other. |
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| Since North Carolina lacked the infrastructure to try pirates, Mary and three others were sent to Williamsburg. |
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| As many historians point out, A General History of the Pyrates set the tone for every work on pirates that has been written since. |
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| With their attacks on private property, belief systems, and governments pirates became outcasts to the realm of the unknown and dangerous. |
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| Philip Levy argues that the Whydah exhibit would have provided opportunity to explore connections between Atlantic pirates and slavery. |
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| The actions of Atlantic pirates, who often attacked slave ships and forts, created a crisis in the European slave trade. |
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| The big names of buccaneers and pirates like Captain Morgan and Blackbeard were major players in those stories. |
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| In recent historiographical works, pirates have been viewed through various lenses. |
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| Recent academic books on piracy in the Atlantic World focus on the pirates and their relationships with the wider world. |
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| Villagers along the south coast of England petitioned the king to protect them from abduction by Barbary pirates. |
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| Without a large central authority and its laws, the pirates themselves started to gain much influence. |
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| Penzance is the home of the pirates in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance. |
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| This was an exceptionally dangerous occupation during the Middle Ages, since the Baltic Sea was full of pirates. |
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| The only boats seized by Somali pirates this year have been two Iranian fishing trawlers, which the Iranian Navy doesn't endeavor to protect. |
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| You can pull up to a street corner and see a dozen pirates, half a dozen Spidermen and a handful of Lady Gagas. |
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| The pirates, nine in all, had approached the ship in swift boats and used their own ladders to board it. |
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| There's more to the blaze than meets the eye, and soon Gonzo is immersed in a rollicking adventure involving ninjas and pirates. |
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| There are even pirates, without the peg legs and eye patches but with enough guns to arm a small country. |
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| With no weapons onboard, the crew is forced to outsmart the pirates. |
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| The Navy said the Tonb and the Delvar spent 44 days on duty in the Gulf of Aden foiling attempted hijacks by Somali pirates. |
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| Even reviled pirates had their own forms of egalitarianism, defying an era of institutionalized slavery. |
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| The pirates then decided to abandon the Iranian ship and hightailed it back to port in skiffs. |
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| The bulk carrier was loaded with aluminium en route to Jebel Ali from Australia on April 1 when the pirates hijacked it. |
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| A SCOT held hostage by pirates told how he tried to fight off his captors with fire hoses. |
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| Tang Chinese soldiers and pirates enslaved Koreans, Turks, Persians, Indonesians, and people from Inner Mongolia, central Asia, and northern India. |
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| In 1614 he sailed to Malabar and Goa to fight the Moorish pirates there. |
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