A Podcast About the Real Men & Women Behind the Golden Age of Piracy
This is the conclusion of the drama on the Chesapeake. Richard Ingle, William Claiborne, Leonard Calvert, and Thomas Cornwaleys all
Continue readingEpisode 157 – Rascally Fellows of Desperate Fortunes
The English Civil War arrived in America when a trader named Richard Ingle was accused of Parliamentarian sympathies. Today’s drama
The fighting on the Chesapeake exploded in the 1630s between Virginia and Maryland. The trading post on Kent Island was
Continue readingEpisode 155 – Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder part 2
Jamestown, Virginia was growing into a viable colony when another party entered the American Colonial world. A formidable Catholic family
Continue readingEpisode 154 – Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder part 1
This is the story of the first act of piracy in the North American English colonies. But really it’s a
This is the story of Sir Christopher Newport & John Smith and the colony at Jamestown. Smith is often lauded
Continue readingEpisode 152 – An Ambitious, Unworthy, & Vainglorious Fellow
The colony at Roanoke has long been an integral part of American Mythology, and the mystery of the Lost Colony
It’s time we discussed the colonization of North America. The Nine Years War will introduce the world to pirates from
We’re discussing the outbreak of the Nine Years War. The Huguenot population were pushed into exile, many to England, where
In the 1670s King Louis XIV was the most powerful Monarch in world. France stood atop the cultural and military