Types of Pirates: Buccaneer, Corsair, and Privateer.
Title: Types of Pirates: Buccaneer, Corsair, and Privateer.
Category: /Literature/North American
Details: Words: 557 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Types of Pirates: Buccaneer, Corsair, and Privateer.
Category: /Literature/North American
Details: Words: 557 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Imagine witnessing the trial of a pirate who was trying to prove to the Admiralty Court that he was a privateer. There were many different types of pirates. Being one and not another "could mean the difference between life and death" (Konstam 10). There were three main types of pirates: buccaneers, corsairs, and privateers.
First, buccaneers, from the French word boucanier, were pirates who were stationed in the Caribbean. They consisted mostly of runaways, fugitives, and …showed first 75 words of 557 total…
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Wilczynski, Krzysztof Types of Pirates: A Buccaneer. Online. 6 Feb 2006.
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Wilczynski, Krzysztof Types of Pirates: A Corsair. Online. 6 Feb 2006.
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Wilczynski, Krzysztof Types of Pirates: A Privateer. Online. 6 Feb 2006.
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