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Details of an encounter with pirates...
Details of an encounter with pirates...
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June 06, 1728
THE POST BOY, London, June 6, 1728 Among the front page reports is an interesting account of an encounter with pirates.
The article mentions in part: "...that 2 Venetian men of war lately arrived there from the Archipelago with 3 Pyrate ships formerly equipt at Malta, but whose crews being made up of none but Greeks, had form'd a plot to take all the ships that fell in their way without respect of nations...these three corsairs have invested the trade to such a degree for these two years last post that no ship durst stir out of the isles of the Archipelago without a convoy...the captains were laid in irons and being put to the rack, confessed that they had taken ten or twelve French Barques which they sunk as soon as they had stript them of every thing that was valuable...".
A single sheet issue, 8 1/2 by 14 inches, two decorative engravings in the masthead, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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