Pirates Flashcards
What are Buccaneers?
The word buccaneer is an Anglicized derivative of the French word
boucanier, they taught French hunters to smoke meat
on a wooden grate called a buccan. The Arawak word became boucan
in French hence the name boucanier (one who uses a boucan)
Who is Sir Henry Morgan?
He is a Buccaneer who,became very rich and retired to England where he was eventually knighted.
Who are Privateers
their a vessel of war, armed and equipped by particular
merchants, and furnished with a military commission by the admiralty .
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
He is arguably the most famous of the English Privateers and also gain the reputation of the brilliant Privateer.
Woodes Rogers is
other than one of the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas, he was also a
successful privateer, having had much success on the Pacific
coast of S. America.
What is the difference between Buccaneers, Privateers, and the Pirates?
Buccaneers attacked Spanish shipping and sometimes had letters of marque. Where as Privateers were commissioned by a monarch or an authorized representative thereof to attack enemy ships , and Lastly they pirates
attacked any ship they thought was worth the effort regardless of national origin.
Who is black beard?
He is an English pirate who operated around the West Indies.
What does “ Expulsis piratis, restitutia commercia”
mean? [2]
No ships passing through or near to the Bahamas was safe from pirate
predation. Reports of pirate inflicted terror, often in graphic detail, were
regularly sent to England by merchantmen.
