The Buccaneers in the pacific were at an impasse. The coast of Nicaragua was preparing an army against them, and

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1685 would be a reliable date for the end of the Buccaneer era of the Golden Age of Piracy. For

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1685 saw the last great, and ultimately failed, piratical raid of the buccaneer era. A multinational armada of pirates sailed

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Our small fleet of English pirates was at an impasse, when several pieces of good fortune fell into their laps.

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