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buccaneering
▪ I. buccaneering, vbl. n. (bʌkəˈnɪərɪŋ) [f. prec. + -ing1.] The occupation of a buccaneer; piracy. buccaneering piece (F. fusil boucanier): a long musket used in hunting wild oxen (Littré).1758 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) I. 383 Lord George Sackville refused to go a-buccaneering. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 61... Oxford English Dictionary
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Peter Wallace (buccaneer)
Buccaneering In 1638, Wallace is believed to have landed at Swallow Caye aboard the Swallow, with a crew of some 80 British men. Legacy Social Wallace became the subject of local buccaneering myths and legends by at least the 1830s, emerging from the 1829 Honduras Almanack. wikipedia.org
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1706 in piracy
Between 1,200-1,300 French privateers occupy Martinique, one of the last old buccaneering hideouts, which they use to raid English and colonial American October - New Providence, a longtime pirate haven during the Buccaneering era, is abandoned after a Spanish raid destroys the church-fortress scattering wikipedia.org
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Zapata
Zapata (zəˈpɑːtə) The name of Emilio Zapata (1879–1919), Mexican revolutionary, used attrib. to designate a type of moustache in which the two ends extend downwards to the chin. Zapata was portrayed with a moustache of this kind by Marlon Brando in the film Viva Zapata! in 1952.1968 Punch 25 Dec. 90... Oxford English Dictionary
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1660s in piracy
Dominique, a large buccaneering presence is established in the various English, French and Dutch colonies in the Lesser Antilles. wikipedia.org
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1670s in piracy
After the signing of the Treaty of Madrid, in which Great Britain agrees to cease its privateering activities against Spain, ending British support for buccaneering wikipedia.org
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1680s in piracy
An anti-buccaneering expedition commanded by Sir Robert Holmes arrives in Charleston, South Carolina. October — Petit-Goâve Governor de Cussy leads a buccaneering expedition against Montego Bay in Jamaica. wikipedia.org
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Michael P. Green
The Times wrote that Green gained "praise for his buccaneering style, charisma and ability to get a deal done". wikipedia.org
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Moïse Vauquelin
He was part of a buccaneering fleet being organized by l'Ollonais at the pirate haven of Tortuga and which would loot and plunder Spanish settlements throughout wikipedia.org
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Pierre le Picard
Biography Pierre le Picard is first referred to as an officer with l'Ollonais in his buccaneering expedition from Tortuga. He may have also been the Captain le Picard who, in early 1685, sailed with the French buccaneering expedition including Francois Grogniet, Mathurin Desmarestz wikipedia.org
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George Gervase
He was left an orphan when he was twelve years of age, and soon after kidnapped by pirates, (probably a lieutenant of Drake, who was then buccaneering wikipedia.org
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The Roman Bath
And there is lively support from Bo Poraj as a manically egotistical academic, Jonathan Rhodes as a buccaneering dealer in stolen goods and Rhona Croker wikipedia.org
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Edward Dempster
Dempster and six other commanders accompanied Morgan to Venezuela and joined his successful raid of Maracaibo and Gibraltar, the last record of Dempster’s buccaneering wikipedia.org
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Tomos Prys
He was also occupied as a buccaneer; at the end of the 16th century he bought a ship and went buccaneering on the Spanish sea routes from the Llŷn coast wikipedia.org
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A New Voyage Round the World
His account is "...notable for the frankness of its account of anarchic, mismanaged and largely unsuccessful buccaneering and merchant enterprise." wikipedia.org
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