Part Five - Pirates of the Round - The Pirate History Podcast

Episode 290 – A Hangman or a Statesman

William Kidd was thrust into a dangerous and immoral world of intrigue and backstabbing. English politics.

Traveling to England ain’t like dusting crops. Without careful calculations you could fly right into the Bristol Chanel.

Robert Culliford has an absolutely fantastic voyage to London. Surely nothing can go wrong when he reaches England.

Robert Culliford departs Madagascar. He encounters King Abraham Samuel and an East India Company pirate hunter.

Cutlass Culliford returns to St. Mary’s where he, and all the pirates, had decisions to make.

We return to the Indian Ocean for the greatest prize ever taken by Pirates of the Round.

William Kidd is moved to HMS Advice.

This Halloween, keep your eyes on the water. THE ICE IS COMING FOR YOU!!

We’re returning to the story of Lord Bellomont, Sarah Bradley, and William Kidd.

Eye patches, flintlock muskets, hook hands, spyglasses, peg legs, and the compass. Also politics and war.