Data Retrieval Chart Your Name: Mark Ford
Use Best Book of Pirates and other resources, including the Web sites listed on the chart.
List fascinating facts for each category of information. If you can’t find a fact for a category, make up a question. Be sure to research the author(s) of each Web site and put that information under the link to the Web site.
Internet Site/Information about the Author / History of
Pirates / Sailors
and Piracy / Buccaneers / Privateers
http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/diff.html / · A Pirate is anyone who robs others at sea
· When privateers exceeded the bounds of their commission, they became Pirates
· Pirates would claim they sailed under no flag, meaning they became Pirates / · Brethren of the Coast, Brotherhood of the Coast, On the Account, Gentleman of Fortune, Sea Dog, Sailing with the Devil, Sailing under Articles
· Many where French sailors who had jumped ship to avoid the harsh discipline / · Brothers of the Coast
· They were geographically closer to the Spanish Main
· French settlers in the Caribbean who used to barbecue or “smoke” wild boar and oxen / · An armed ship under “Marque of Letters”
· The men who sailed these ships became known as privateers
· During war time, some governments would commission privateers to seek out and attack the ships of hostile nations
· Henry Morgan
http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/pirates/pirate1.htm / · Piracy is of ancient origin
· Dates back to the 9th century when Vikings terrorized western European coasts and waters / · “Piracy is recognized as an offense against the law of nations
· In municipal law, the term piracy has been extended to cover crimes / · Freebooters
· Harassed the Spanish colonies in the New World in the late 17th century
· Tortuga (Ile de la Tortue)
· / · Piracy is distinguished from “privateering”
· Declaration of Paris of 1856
· United States and certain other nations did not assent to the declaration
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110360/letofm.htm / · Piracy began when men started sailing across the sea
· Piracy was active all over but especially on European coastlines
· Mediterranean Pirates
· Vikings
· Barbary Corsairs
· Orient / · These Pirates set up a large pirate nation in Cilicia
· Golden Age of Piracy
· Bigger ships and braver men moved Piracy into the New World
· Most Pirates died before age thirty / · Men from Holland, England, and France
· Learned from Indians on Hispaniola islands how to use a knife called boucans
· Their name came from their use of the boucan knife / · Privateers captained ships that attacked and captured other ships
· A Privateer was not considered to be a true pirate because they were given special licenses called a “Letter of Marque”
Books and Other Resources
The Best Book of Pirates
by: Barnaby Harward / · Greek pirates attacked ships in the Mediterranean Sea around 2,700 years ago.
· 1,000 years ago Vikings, pirates from Scandinavia, sailed the seas of northern Europe.
· The most famous pirates lived in the 1600s and 1700s. / · The ships were very uncomfortable.
· Most Pirates who became injured or sick usually died.
· Pirates used compasses, maps, and telescopes which they often had stolen from other ships. / · Buccaneers were pirates who lived on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. In the 1600s
· They attacked Spanish ships loaded with treasure as they sailed from South America back to Spain.
· One of the greatest buccaneers was Henry Morgan
· They got their name from the fire on which they smoked and dried meat. / · Francois le Clerc was a French private who had a wooden leg and was called Jambe de Bois, meaning “pegleg”.
· Privateers were pirates sent by their government to rob enemy ships during war.
· Privateers were cheered by their governments for their actions.
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