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Pirate troubles...
Pirate troubles...
Item # 689365
February 04, 1685
THE LONDON GAZETTE, England, Feb. 4, 1685 (1686 by today's calendar) The front page has two reports concerning pirates: "...ready to sail from Cartagena...that their lading would amount to 20,000 millions in silver...And that most of the Pyrats who went into the South were destroyed...". Another report notes in part: "...given orders for the arming four gallons at Pisa which are to cruse on these coasts to secure them against the Pyrats of Barbary...".
A single sheet newspaper, 6 1/2 by 11 inches, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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