Among the earliest of quasi-official pirates were those known by the swashbuckling name of Corsairs. Europe was almost constantly at war during the sixteenth century, but instead of fighting a traditional war, France and England provided private ships with Letters of Marque to battle the Spanish in undeclared war. Watch to learn about this forgotten history and be sure to subscribe for more.
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Great video.
I would love a bibliography of this episode. I am a student of Nautical Archaeology and this time period in the Caribbean, especially the first ships sailing from Mexico with treasure and early artifacts of the Central American peoples.
9:05 LOL what's up with his face!?
I have an idea for an episode for you Egmont Island at the mouth of Tampa Bay has a rich history there are old forts on the island and it was also used as an Indian jail the shells of several large buildings and Foundations still remain brick pathways on the island and even a small rail system I think your viewers and yourself would find it interesting
When a Spaniard back then calls you out for heresy, you dead. LOL
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Thanks all over again to THG🎀…….
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Interesting, but you do need to work on your French pronunciation.
Don’t all good stories include pirates?
ARRRGH
Staten island NYC was settled by Huguenots. There's a town called Huguenot still
Piracy, the Spanish Inquisition, Martin Luther, what a time to be alive…
If you're in a Monty Python sketch. I think it would've been bloody awful for real people.
Sir, you come up with some of the most obscure things….and I Love it! ❤️ Keep surprising us all!👍🤙🖖🤞✌️!
The privateers were pirates because …
I found your video incredibly fascinating due to the large role of the Huguenots in the telling. My father’s family has an unusual last name that I have been told is resulting from its origins on a French island off their sea coast. My father’s family supposedly fled France as Huguenot refugees from Catholic persecution, coming to America in the 1600’s after stopping off in Scotland and then even Northern Ireland for a time. There are some families in Belgium and even Germany with derivatives of our last name, possibly distant relatives from the diaspora of Huguenots fleeing the murderous Catholics of that era. Such historical info is very difficult to come by, and thus your video was most enlightening. Thank you, Lance! 👍👍👍
Aaaaaaaaarg!
Without pirates, Robert Louis Stevenson would only have had mad scientists to write about….
That would have been bad.
Wow another Religious war. 😕
Oh, poor Westley has a wee bit of a bend to his rapier!
Fascinating
Are there ways to test gold and jewels to see where they originated? Seems to me all of this should be returned to the people that were robbed.
Why were the Pilates Pirates not mentioned ?
you've done a video on pirates. now you've done a video on corsairs. next you have to do a video on buccaneers. and i don't mean tom brady's football team XD
Thank you History guy for making our history understandable and comprehendable. You keep it real my bro. Solid
Thoroughly enjoyed this video as I am a bigger fan of the "Silver" Age of Piracy than of the "Golden" one. I find fascination in the French Wars of Religion, the 80 years war, the Wars of Swedish Succession, the Russian Time of Troubles, the 30 years War, the Franco-Dutch wars of Louis XIV, and of course Polish Hussars wherever I can find them.
Pirates come cloaked in many forms.
There's an excellent movie from 1994 about the St Bartholomew Day massacre called Queen Margot.
I've been to La Rochelle as it's the site of one of my favorite scenes in The Three Musketeers.
Notice that in the 1495 Treaty of Tordesillas map has Newfoundland much closer to Europe to be on the side Portugal retained, this was because of the cod and other resources of the island.
I just had visions of a flight of F-4U's flying over a fleet of Spanish galleons.
Every good stories involve pirates 😄
Every American should listen to this, and think?
Would I kill my neighbor because of his religious beliefs?
Because that's what these people did!
Not just Kings, and Popes, but the guy you'ld borrow a lawnmower from. Could you kill him?
Every American should bow his head to whoever his God is, and thank Him/Her/It for the Our Founding Fathers who said this is a safe place FOR YOU, and your beliefs!
Please don't fuck this up!
I read Drakes death from a tropical disease is a big lie. He died from battle wounds after attacking San Juan Puerto Rico. He was wounded in the Battle of San Juan in year 1595 along with Admiral Hemmins, which died by cannonfire on that battle and his mangled body had to be buried at sea quickly in front of San Juan. They lost the battle. Drakes was wounded and carried by the losing ships to try to reach their Panama base, but he died before. So 2 of the 3 most famous British Admirals presumed died in The Battle of San Juan in 1595.
I loved pirates of the Caribbean and this adds a whole new layer of interest and history to it. Thanks for sharing, I always appreciate a good history,
We now know that convoys existed in the 1520s.Thanks to this good show.
Guy you really like pirates! 👍
Thank you for the lesson.
The French Corsairs were primarily protestant, huh. That's funny. Can't wait to tell Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, IL about their mascot. They are called the Corsairs (or could they be named after the so-called Turkish Corsairs, nah).
Every good tale has pirates or at least privateers.
I've been watching your shows for years- big fan
Buckets of ducats!